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by noir_lord 1877 days ago
Utter chaos for a week, then a week or two of swearing at gitlab then the world would continue - since while we use github we don't really use github - it's just a shared git repository with a reasonably nice interface for reviewing code.

That's for my company, for many open source projects the damage would be more severe since they often heavily use issues and GH project management features.
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kelnos 1877 days ago
The problem is that many people (including companies) use GH for more than just source code hosting. Bug tracking, CI/CD, artifact hosting, etc. That's not something most companies can replace in a week, unless GitLab (or others) have a seamless import tool. And even then, if GH is down or your account has been suspended, what do you import from?
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majkinetor 1877 days ago
Dont be naive. People depend on github for packages. Literary countless projects would fail to build.
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