Ask HN: Why are people leaving GitHub now?
What did I miss, why do I see so much posts about people leaving GitHub NOW?
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Interestingly, if you're in a EU timezone or near it, Github is normally pretty good. It's mostly affecting the Americans.
I am in the EU timezone and had some minor issues recently with GitHub as well, but it never lasts very long.
Ah I see. Yeah did not experience issues here in the EU.
Three things, Reliability is gone. Hashimoto (Ghostty) just left two days ago, Copilot is being forced and downtime. I left last week and moved to a selfhosted git.
Their uptime sucks enough that it's a real problem and not just an annoyance.
- MS forcing AI
- the uptime is dropping