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Why? Like I wrote in a separate comment, it's not a mail server, it's a Postgres database, a Golang app, and backups (and some providers will just handle that for you!)

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What do you mean "why"? Setting up and tinkering with systems is work I loathe to do, obviously. I want to code, not host coding repositories. I did it in the past because I had to, and now I don't have to do it because github does it for me. It's great.

Except when Github’s down, of course. I’m saying it’s incomprehensible to me that people would rather put their trust into an organization as enshittified as Microsoft where they get their codebases added to an AI, have an awful experience (the code review UX, for example), and deal with consistent downtime, rather than put a few hours every so often into something that they loathe to do. That does not seem like a good trade-off at all.

> and deal with consistent downtime,

Wildly exaggerated. I use github almost daily and can't remember when the last downtime was.

This thread is about a nine hour outage in the middle of the east coast workday for Github Actions.

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