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GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by Microsoft it started getting bloated and enshittified - it lost its direction and doesn't seem to care about its customers. And Github is probably not the only one - there are many other examples. We got to have a kill switch for this - when do we as a community say enough is enough and switch from GitHub. If a tool constantly proves unreliable, keep using it is not logical. I really hope Github pulls up its socks and really addresses the problems - the network effect will not last for long if you keep having outages. As pointed out pertinently on hn - "But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself spread across a bunch of disparate places and services. The stated need they satisfy (source control with a web interface and some technical features, like pull requests with reviews) will be fulfilled.…

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