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by jasonkester 180 days ago
It has the same effect though. A few bad actors using this “free” thing can end up driving the cost up enough that Microsoft will have to start charging for it.

The jerks get their free things for a while, then it goes away for everyone.
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Y_Y 180 days ago
I think the jerks are the ones who bought and enshittified GitHub after it had earned significant trust and become an important part of FOSS infrastructure.
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irishcoffee 180 days ago
Scoping it to a local maxima, the only thing worse than git is github. In an alternate universe hg won the clone wars and we are all better off for it.
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MarsIronPI 180 days ago
Excuse me if this is obvious, but how is Mercurial better than Git from a repo format perspective?
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dahart 180 days ago
Why do you blame MS for predictably doing what MS does, and not the people who sold that trust & FOSS infra to MS for a profit? Your blame seems misplaced.

And out of curiosity, aside from costing more for some people, what’s worse exactly? I’m not a heavy GitHub user, but I haven’t really noticed anything in the core functionality that would justify calling it enshittified.

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mastax 180 days ago
Plenty of blame to go around.

Probably the worst thing MS did was kill GitHub’s nascent CI project and replace it with Azure DevOps. Though to be fair the fundamental flaws with that approach didn’t really become apparent for a few years. And GitHub’s feature development pace was far too slow compared to its competitors at the time. Of course GitHub used to be a lot more reliable…

Now they’re cramming in half baked AI stuff everywhere but that’s hardly a MS specific sin.

MS GitHub has been worse about DMCA and sanctioned country related takedowns than I remember pre acquisition GitHub being.

Did I miss anything?

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Y_Y 180 days ago
I don't blame them uniquely. I think it's a travesty the original GitHub sold out, but it's just as predictable. Giant corps will evilly make the line go up, individual regular people will have a finite amount of money for which they'll give up anything and everything.

As for how the site has become worse, plenty of others have already done a better job than I could there. Other people haven't noticed or don't care and that's ok too I guess.

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