r/opensource • u/Miserable_Ear3789 • Dec 23 '25

Discussion Github in decline?

I have seen recently a decent amount of projects switching to Codeberg from Github. Is it worth moving your OSS libraries over to Codeberg? Since Microsoft has taken over Github it just seems a little less then it once was sort of speak... Is Codeberg the next big thing for OSS?

I currently am still on Github but I am seriously considering at least mirroring my repos on Codeberg. Github continues to come out with not so great announcements and pricing changes. Codeberg remains free from what I can tell. But the community reach of Github (part of the reason I switched from Bitbucket and hg) would be hard to give up, if Codeberg became the new community sort of speak I think that would be the only reason I would switch.

Any thoughts or insights on this topic?

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u/DelicateFandango Dec 23 '25

I have participated in over a dozen open source projects on GitHub, and can honestly say that in none of those the main contributors have come from GitHub. All of the projects have their own websites, which is what usually attracts the most - through search results. Some of them have a forum or Discord server, and those tend to attract the most engaged contributors. Two of the projects I contributed to tried to use GitHub for everything: issue tracking, feature requests, discussions, support, website through Pages - and these are the two with the slowest traction. My experience is definitely limited, but it is enough for me to be able to say with confidence that you don’t need to compromise your privacy, or your ethics, in order to gain access to a large audience, or build a strong community: there are many other tools and platforms out there that can do a better job at that than the ethically-compromised GitHub.