[rickette]

Lots of comments here remind me of the time GitHub was purchased by Microsoft. It would be the dead of GitHub. While in fact it got better: GitHub Actions (pretty neat CI system) happend under Microsoft. Free private repos happend under Microsoft.

Now this time it could be different. But last time wasn't that bad imho.

[sunaookami]

Microsoft made the GitHub UI significantly worse by rewriting everything in React. It's now slow and bloated. Copying text from the file viewer is a nightmare. And never ever look at how GitHub Actions work under the hood, you will wish you never became a developer.

[giancarlostoro]

Search is very much FUBAR. I get nagged to register even though they know I have like 17 github accounts, because who does not? They missed the ball on that one. Sometimes I like to browse without any cookies on a separate browser for window shopping reasons. Leave me alone Microsoft.

[azemetre]

What was it before react? I do remember it being much faster.

[sunaookami]

I don't think they used a framework, I remember they used a lot of "vanilla JavaScript". They're using Rails after all. Here is a thread from 2022 where they began using React for their (then) new search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33576722

[benterix]

Gitlab had their CI/CD a few years earlier, Github had no other option. As to which one feels more productive, that's up to personal tastes, for me Gitlab's option seems far more polished.

[krainboltgreene]

Github Actions was announced in OCT 2018, the acquisition deal close was announced a few days later.

[nicce]

Has there been any reports whether GitHub actually makes any money?

[mcrk]

I feel like it doesn't matter at this point as long as MS valuation goes up it's all worth the costs. We're living in the VC economy :D

[28304283409234]

Github is the trainingmaterial for AI. It's a resource, not a product to make money with.

[nicce]

Is there evidence that GitHub has successfully prevented other AI companies from cloning open-source projects?

[foepys]

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936992

[everfrustrated]

Microsoft doesn't disclose much but there were headlines in 2022 saying they were now at $1B annual recurring revenue.

Now with copilot I'd be surprised if they weren't profitable

[tikhonj]

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, etc, etc.

[zzo38computer]

It did not entirely get better; some things may have improved and some things may have been made worse.

Private repositories is not a feature I use (if I want the files to be private, I will not send them to Microsoft or to someone else, unless they are the intended recipient).

I use GitHub Actions to automatically assign issues to myself,

I think they have changed the HTML in many worse ways; some functions require JavaScripts, etc. They also made mandatory 2FA, and setting it up does not work properly. (I can use the API to get around both issues, for now.)