GlyphFeb 18
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I realize I must not be the first person to make this joke but I just haven't seen it yet
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Show threadGlyphFeb 18
I was just visiting the blog to try to find the announcement of the new PR-to-PR workflow, I was not looking for a dunk
Show threadGlyphFeb 18
I have been in the moderate camp on the issue of migrating off of Github, despite much cogently-argued advocacy from people I respect. Five minutes of scrolling through https://github.blog/ has done more to convince me that I really need to be making a plan to migrate away than anything they have said
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Show threadGlyphFeb 18
This is a truly, viscerally repulsive level of boosterism. I realize I'm just repeating myself here but it is literally shocking. Just from using the UI I did not realize how incredibly bad it had gotten
Show threadGlyphFeb 18
I do not even have a coherent metaphor for what I'm feeling. It's like going to your favorite restaurant where you know the quality of the food has been declining a bit, but it's still kinda fine and nowhere else in the neighborhood is really good enough to replace it, peeking into the kitchen, and seeing it packed floor-to-ceiling with e-meters, with the entire food prep area crammed into a corner where a single cook is working
Show threadMatt BoydFeb 18
@glyph Yeah, you definitely don't have a coherent metaphor for what you're feeling.
Show threadGlyphFeb 18
@3psboyd in my defense it’s hard to make sense when the thing that I am describing does not make any sense
Show threadCharles OuGuoFeb 18
@glyph if nothing else, it is really, really obvious which pages Github engineers look at, and which ones only CTOs do.
Show threadGlyphFeb 18
@ouguoc I *used* to subscribe to the blog and read it regularly, I unsubbed when I started getting a *bit* of slopologia in my feed, but this is… more
Show threadCharles OuGuoFeb 18
@glyph yeah, i also experienced a sudden feeling of alienation, for what it's worth. :/
Show threadJayFFeb 18
@glyph codeberg is the hole in the wall with great schnitzel
Show threadHakan BayındırFeb 18

@jay @glyph
and root beer!

Also, there's a technical space called Source Hut. They are not cheap, but it feels and works like the tech spaces you missed.

Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowFeb 18
@glyph I started doing shit on Codeberg because I have the relative advantage of being able to be more obstinate about things, but wow it feels more necessary than ever lately.
Show threadcthos 🐱Feb 18
@xgranade @glyph Stuff is just outright broken on Github regularly now too, like the new PR review pages are just unusable a higher-than-it-should-be percentage of the time
Show threadDan Ryan  (he/she/they)Feb 18
@glyph I just had the same reaction
Show threadsynlogic4242Feb 18
@glyph I've had both public and private code repos at GitHub for perhaps a decade or more, and I feel betrayed by their "training" of Copilot, ChatGPT etc on my code (and text) without my consent. I intend to migrate off 100%. moved 1 of my projects (LatLearn, a Golang latency instrum lib) to Codeberg, as a pilot experiment. then move rest later. MS/GH/OpenAI's values and tastes are not mine and I dont want cognitive dissonance either
Show threadMario MunozFeb 18

@glyph 😁

Mine didn't have quite the same punch with the side-by-side blog posts, but I have a feeling this wont be the first or last time this image will be appropriate...

https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116060061473090167

Show threadGlyphFeb 18
@pythonbynight I have not visited the blog home page in a while but wow, even for someone like me who complains about this so much that even complaining about how much I complain is a regular part of my post repertoire, this is DIRE. I literally can't find anything useful on their homepage because it's buried in this disgusting pile of slop apologia
Show threadMario MunozFeb 18
@glyph It is absurdly daunting. As someone with a lot less baggage invested in their ecosystem, I'm glad that I meandered over to codeberg at the end of 2024. There was a social aspect of GH that I sort of miss, but, to be honest, not all that much.
Show threadTom GorenFeb 18
@pythonbynight @glyph "social aspect" you mean like https://github.com/neodrama/github-drama? 😂
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Show threadMario MunozFeb 18

@shizbot @glyph lolol.... Ha, yeah there's that too.

Mostly I was thinking of the few folks I followed, the occasional interesting projects with accompanying star counts, and things l like that... Though yeah, even those things were on a downward trajectory overall.

Show threadHynek SchlawackFeb 18
@glyph it’s a whole genre now https://mastodon.social/@hynek/115786979597136845