GitHub Is Sinking

Re:GitHub Is Sinking by bdangubic on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:02PM (#48085658)

of all the awful things AI is doing and will be doing to society, killing centralized code hosting and social media will be its shinniest moments, both deserve to die painful deaths

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by idiotsecant on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:06PM (#48085701)

Yes, the terrible sin of ... Hosting code where people can find it

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by icase on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:39PM (#48086042)

hosting code where people can find it is the reason LLMs can write code, so we kind of screwed ourselves there…

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by exe34 on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:40PM (#48086049)

How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke?

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by doubled112 on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:54PM (#48086202)

Sourceforge

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by kuboble on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:58PM (#48086237)

Private people would keep their code locally and share the snapshot of the code using any file sharing or hosting option available.

Companies had been hosting their own CVS or later svn servers.

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by lelanthran on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:33PM (#48087665)

> How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke?

I've been sharing GPL projects since 1999. We didn't need peek and poke (Both of which I have also used further in history...), but we managed nevertheless.

Prior to github I shared software on sourceforge (and others). Prior to that I published stuff on Freshmeat.

Prior to that I downloaded games others shared (not open source) on Happy Puppy.

Prior to that I used usenet to find and download games, shareware, etc.

Prior to that I used ftp to (IIRC) ftp.sunsite.edu, ftp.nic.fi, and others.

Prior to that I got news of new releases using Gopher.

Finally, prior to that, I actuallyy did use peek and poke to write software :-/

If github went away, and centralised repos went away, we'd still have something...

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by icase on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:33PM (#48101609)

is this a serious question

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by exe34 on Sunday May 17, 2026 @03:37PM (#48172491)

No, it was rhetorical. I remember downloading software from sourceforge, distro servers and getting drivers from random people's websites that needed to be compiled.

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Re:GitHub Is Sinking by xigoi on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:07PM (#48088046)

I can’t remember the last time I looked for a project specifically on GitHub. I always come there via a link from another site.

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