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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by icebraining on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:28PM (#13189694)
Joey Hess' github-backup backs up everything github knows about a repository (including branches, tags, other forks, issues, comments, wikis, milestones, pull requests, watchers, and stars) to the repository.

I'm sure most of these could be re-imported into an alternative service through its API, even if with some loss of fidelity.

https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by AceJohnny2 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:56PM (#13189886)
That's awesome. I need to send JoeyH more money.

(for others: he's also the creator of git-annex, an out-of-band file storage extension to git, and for a long time was the maintainer of critical parts of Debian's ecosystem. He likes to live in a yurt: http://joeyh.name/yurt/)

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by icebraining on Thursday December 15, 2016 @07:08PM (#13189953)
https://www.patreon.com/joeyh

^^

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by flukus on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:56PM (#13191179)
The other problem is that "cloud services" have taught people not to back up their data.
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