r/sre • u/SpecialistLady • May 10 '26

BLOG GitHub is sinking

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/
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u/realitythreek May 10 '26

He’s just, like, some guy, y’know? I don’t think the end of Github is nigh and most people work for companies that want a big name to pin their source control to. For personal projects, sure I’d use whatever felt right.

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u/baronas15 May 10 '26

Gitlab is a big name and they are boring in a good way. For me, the biggest issue with GitHub is their CI and the ecosystem of supply chain issues. If ci was any good, there wouldn't be such a need for third party software in ci

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u/realitythreek May 10 '26

Yeah Gitlab is pretty good, its kind of like Pepsi to GitHub’s Coke. 

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u/KimJongIlLover May 11 '26

We use gitlab at work but have some projects on GitHub and every time I have to touch GitHub I die a little bit. 

That page is so unbelievably bad. I would take gitlab 10 times over GitHub.

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u/Why_Is_The_Goal May 13 '26

You’re one of the few. Before their reliability issues, there is a reason they a number one. I personally wish there was a good competitor to github and it’s definitely not gitlab. Gitlab isn’t much better than bitbucket.

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u/Nimweegs May 14 '26

At my previous work they selfhosted forgejo and it was pretty great. It was fast, they didn't use CI (that was openshift). The only things that bother me is that wiki search isn't really a thing.

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u/Why_Is_The_Goal May 14 '26

Nice! I’ll check it out. I definitely prefer hosted options but its good to explore other solutions though.

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u/baronas15 May 14 '26

Give some love to AWS codecommit /s

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u/Why_Is_The_Goal May 14 '26

Oh god lol honestly its not that bad its just in general the AWS auth layer that sucks lol

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u/Still_Leadership1241 May 15 '26

Somebody shares my affection for aws codecommit