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Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:28AM (#50411988)
People who migrate away from Github, what makes you think they're more reliable? All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents. At least if Github goes down, your boss is not going to blame you.

I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by atiedebee on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:32AM (#50412008)
Codeberg specifically has a policy against projects that are maintained heavily with AI tooling, so I don't think they would have that problem.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by pixelesque on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:51AM (#50412122)
Their uptime's not exactly great either though:

https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:32AM (#50412357)
Which funny enough is lesser than Github: https://www.githubstatus.com/

I'd much rather stay with Github than a small provider.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by Shorel on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:33AM (#50412019)
Their terms of service forbid AI agents or even AI created code to be submitted there.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:42AM (#50412770)
How would they know?

Detect it using an algorithm and automatically ban your business account?

Do people not see how insane that policy is?

Re:GitHub Down Again? by Shorel on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:23PM (#50418051)
I sometimes wonder if any vibe coder has ever coded something manually again.

The world is changing too fast for our laws to adapt. Not to mention for us to adapt.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by hagbard_c on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:37AM (#50412041)
> I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup.

Swap those two and you're on the right track. I think the best way to use GH is as a mirror for a self-hosted git instance, with or without web frontend. It gives you the reach of GH with the, dare I say it, reliability of self-hosted. It also gives you the chance to keep things off GH which you don't want to be there. Keep the self-hosted instance private for most things, use GH links for public access. When GH is down again you can always give people (temporary) access to your self-hosted instance if the need arrives.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by Lapel2742 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:41AM (#50412066)
> All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents.

You are probably wrong on that.

> You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

https://codeberg.org/codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...

Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:31AM (#50412350)

  You are probably wrong on that.
I don't think I'm. If another Git service gets popular, they too will experience surges and go down often.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by chrismorgan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:52AM (#50412475)
You missed the rest of the comment, which was to the effect that such AI agents are not allowed on Codeberg. Any abuse at scale will be easily detected and banned.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:22AM (#50412657)
How would they know?
Re:GitHub Down Again? by chrismorgan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:50AM (#50414867)
I said any abuse at scale. Very good heuristics are quite straightforward, you can then manually check those that are less reliable.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:37PM (#50415318)
Manually check? What? You want their staff to check your company's secret code?

Come on man.

Heuristics are never 100%. Even a 0.001% error rate is simply unacceptable to businesses.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by chrismorgan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:05PM (#50415552)
We’re talking about Codeberg. “Your company’s secret code” is not welcome there.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by aurareturn on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:28AM (#50422228)
Then why are we even talking about it as an alternative to professionals?