Despite everything, a small praise of GitHub

It’s hard to ignore the current mood around GitHub. Something feels off. As Gergely Orosz has been hinting in recent posts and discussions, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to understand what the strategy is, or where leadership is taking things. You don’t need insider knowledge to feel it: outages, degraded services, indexing inconsistencies, security vulnerabilities surfacing in uncomfortable clusters. None of this is catastrophic on its own. But together, it paints the picture of a system under strain rather than one confidently evolving. At the same time, there’s a broader conversation happening. Armin Ronacher recently published Before GitHub, a piece worth reading in full: It’s not nostalgia for the sake of it.

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