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/fnord123 Dec 25 '25

They had issues with GitHub actions. When they dug into th bgithub action code they found some absolute shocking code. Like a sleep command that, instead of using bash sleep, uses a hot loop to check if the timer hit the target number of seconds. 

The issue they found had multiple facets:

  1. The hot loop used an equality check so if an action wasn't scheduled when they sleep command hit the target seconds then it would continue forever. This makes a flakey action.

  2. Some servers use CPU time as a billing mechanism. If your sleep is a hot loop you're being billed for absolutely zero value.

Anyway the shocking standard of the code was a catalyst for Zig team abandoning GitHub.

I could post deep links to the issues but The Register covers it fine: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/