Days without GitHub incidents

Re:Days without GitHub incidents by IshKebab on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:11PM (#48012582)

> Maybe that's good-will doing the work?

Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.

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Re:Days without GitHub incidents by gordon_freeman on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:16PM (#48012642)

they are not the non-profit. they make money of it and devs expect certain kind of service in return. GH failed to deliver on the service expectation.

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Re:Days without GitHub incidents by xp84 on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:00PM (#48013323)

What money do GH make off open source projects on the free tier? I haven’t seen ads, micropayments to clone repos, etc?

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Re:Days without GitHub incidents by tardedmeme on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:06PM (#48013417)

It's the marketing budget. People only pay for it because they've used it for free.

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Re:Days without GitHub incidents by collinmanderson on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:28PM (#48012825)

https://xkcd.com/1150/

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Re:Days without GitHub incidents by IshKebab on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:42PM (#48013057)

Oversimplification.

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Re:Days without GitHub incidents by kevmo on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:15PM (#48012628)

You're right, but that GitHub is dead.

Also, the former stewards of that open source goodness sold it to Microsoft for a cheap buck.

Any goodwill they earned has been spent.

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