[1MachineElf]

We knew a day like this would come after Microsoft acquired GitHub.

Glad to see a great alternative, SourceHut, is moving forward as evidenced by the HN submission made earlier today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23485290

[josephcsible]

This isn't related to that, and the same thing would have happened no matter where it was hosted. It was a DMCA issue, not Microsoft giving themselves special treatment with GitHub.

[wvenable]

This is the opposite since it clearly went through normal DCMA channels and wasn't a back-ended removal.