How has GitHub been enshittified? It's a genuine question, because I've thought Microsoft has been a pretty good steward of it until now.

Use Codeberg, or self-host Forgejo

I stopped sending updates to it and host my own gitlab now.

won't ever look back.

It's not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.

Microsoft switched from the really aggressive "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that's still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.

What are you using?

Meaning you have your own machine to host on or how does it work?

yes. I have a rack in my basement and host gitlab out of one of my servers.

it's available over LAN or VPN.

nightly backups to a nas and weekly syncs to S3.

Our company runs everything on Azure. We use windows PCs, Visual Studio Professional, C# .Net, outlook, teams, etc.

We make enterprise software and I am happy really. I wasn’t at the start but as time goes on I don’t care, I do my job and go home.

S3 seems like a really expensive way to backup personal data. Are you doing it to achieve the offsite backup?

I currently dont have an offsite and im weighing up having a NAS at my parents place.

So your company either works with Microsoft or has a weird idea of security. Teams does not work without taking home to Microsoft. My company tried everything but couldn’t make it work, so they extended their Skype for business service for some years.

I hope they switch to Linux when this is over.

I fully saw it when I heard but alas. I still need the green squares on my github page to get hired. Nobody looks at projects as much as the green squares.

S3 is within my budget, but it can get expensive. and yes it's my off site.

if I had someplace else I could trust like you mentioned I might do that but it's just too much data to send.

my gitlab backups are around 80gb.

It's not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.

Microsoft switched from the really aggressive "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that's still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.

I honestly don't understand why Github hasn't been abandoned by users at this point. If I were a company, I'd either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.

I'm just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago

Go with self hosted solutions, it's really not that hard.

No, I know why you would want search, I was asking about why you would want social features.

These comment make me curious. How many of you have read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland?

I'm sure most of you haven't, but just curious if anyone has

I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can't see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.

My wife's taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don't want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she's stuck using VSCode for þat and it's so fucking painful to use.

Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I'd let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.

Hey have you considered lakefs based solutions for backups? I think you can set the retention rules up so that only backups upto so many months are retained and the rest are removed. That way only the diff in the backup files need to be uploaded.