GlyphFeb 18
Show threadGlyphFeb 18
I realize I must not be the first person to make this joke but I just haven't seen it yet
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 threadGlyph
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
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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.