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by fkyoureadthedoc 309 days ago
> gamified and turned into social media.

What makes you think this? I use it for work and it's never been better in terms of features, and is just as reliable as usual.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.
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herbst 309 days ago
> just as reliable as usual

The widespread downtime issues the last years aren't what I call usual

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ryandv 309 days ago
> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.

There was a time before "achievements" or badges and NARCISSISM.MD files on your profile page.

The UI has clearly regressed in terms of performance and responsiveness over the years, when GitHub insisted on making the code viewer a pseudo-IDE. There was even an article making this observation here on HN just last week [0].

Do you seriously feel that GitHub of 2025 has had less outages and more stability than GitHub of 2015?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861

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fkyoureadthedoc 309 days ago
I'm sure if you count incidents vs 2015, 2025 has more. But it also has more scale in every aspect. More features, more users, etc. Over the years of using GitHub I've only been blocked from doing dev activities a handful of times because of GitHub outages. None of them are very memorable.

I appreciate the enhancements to the code viewer, like jumping between symbols.

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petre 309 days ago
It has too many features, the configuration menu is overcomplicated. I had to ask Claude how to create a token and what permissions to assign it in order to be able to clone a repo. Of course we need AI with this amount of nonsense.
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Banditoz 309 days ago
Gitea's interface feels nice to used compared to the UI of GitHub and Gitlab of today. It's mostly server-side rendered.
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7bit 309 days ago
> There was a time before "achievements" or badges and NARCISSISM.MD files on your profile page.

That's what annoys you? The profile pages of other people?

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