Discussion

• @hkarthik Karthik Hariharan on x

  Folks have been wondering what happens to open source if GitHub changes its pricing model and/or continues to be unreliable. Ghostty moving off maybe the canary in the coal mine. It will be interesting to see what other big OSS projects do next.

• @handotdev Han Wang on x

  an ai-native, high performance, never-down github alternative would go hard right now

• @hesamation @hesamation on x

  btw Mitchell has 21.8K followers, ghostty has 51.9K stars, and his contribution heatmap is green af. you got to push this guy to the absolute limit to leave GitHub for another platform, and I won't be surprised if more developers follow the same path. [image]

• @dani_avila7 Daniel San on x

  Big news, and I think we'll start seeing more of these moves GitHub, for better or worse, has become a general dumping ground where tons of people (and agents) just spew text non-stop This has massively increased the platform's failure rate. It wasn't ready for the AI avalanche

• @kdaigle Kyle Daigle on x

  @mitchellh I'm sorry, @mitchellh. The team is going to keep working to make GitHub something you can come back to with real proof, not words. Until then, I'll still be cheering on Ghostty as a user.

• @armon Armon Dadgar on x

  By the time you are losing @mitchellh, you have to assume @github has destroyed an incredible amount of community goodwill. Setting aside the lack of vision, the uptime alone is unacceptable.

• @josevalim José Valim on x

  The personal angle of this article really resonates with me. GitHub helped shape my career, which makes me “irrationally” attached to it. I want it to succeed and see it do for others what it did for me.

• @amasad Amjad Masad on x

  It's honestly impressive that GitHub kept the service up at all, given this kind of growth. I predicted this years ago: Free services will become untenable with the advent of human-level bots. Worth exploring micro-payments: Even cents per git push might be enough to reduce [imag…

• @mitchellh Mitchell Hashimoto on x

  Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. https://mitchellh.com/...

• @nicbarkeragain Nic Barker on x

  I have a bad feeling that in a few years this github situation will be remembered as the first sign of something much worse and more widespread

• @mitsuhiko Armin Ronacher on x

  The post by @mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub “obituary”. I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/...

• @justingarrison.com Justin Garrison on bluesky

  TIL @mitchellh.com left twitter.  Unfortunately, he only posts on Mastodon  —  He's also leaving GitHub (or at least Ghostty is)  —  mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...

• r/linux r on reddit

  Ghostty terminal Is Leaving GitHub

• r/commandline r on reddit

  Ghostty terminal Is Leaving GitHub

• @mappletons Maggie Appleton on x

  I don't work on reliability & scaling at GitHub, but the people who do aren't bad at their jobs. They're dealing with unprecedented scale from agents. It's easy to shit on GitHub from the outside if you're not in charge of 30X-ing capacity within a few months. Have some grace. [i…

• @cassidoo Cassidy on x

  The team is blessed and stressed y'all, please be nice in your tweets 😅 https://github.blog/...

• @theprimeagen @theprimeagen on x

  @mariorod1 Also, your doc talks about transparency. How is April 23rd's pr history altering issue not represented as a blip somewhere on your status page? Is it because the only true downtime was for the ~230 orgs affected? [image]

• @theprimeagen @theprimeagen on x

  @mariorod1 How can we trust you and what you say? I have no idea your tenure as CPO, but if you, the product officer, have a tenure longer than 6 months, I do not see how I can trust a word you say. Get a CEO, leave CoreAI, and maybe we can believe you

• @mariorod1 Mario Rodriguez on x

  @MrAhmadAwais I'm sorry it's been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better. Today we published an update on two recent incidents including the April 27 affecting pull requests, issues, projects, and search-backed experiences. https://github.blog/...

• @nicoloboschi Nicolò Boschi on x

  I know i've said bad things on Github stability but honestly I'm sure they are doing an amazing job to keep the infra as stable as possible with this kind of growth

• @auchenberg Kenneth Auchenberg on x

  GitHub experiencing exponential growth fueled by AI. “By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today's scale.” [image]

• @mariorod1 Mario Rodriguez on x

  Being the foundation for millions of developers means our bar must be higher for availability, reliability, and security. I'm sorry it's been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better. Today we published an update on two recent incidents: one on April 23 involving

• @ryanvogel Vogel on x

  “github just lost another 9” [image]

• @hsvsphere @hsvsphere on x

  “github just lost another 8” [image]

• @glcst Glauber Costa on x

  Is Github fucking with us again? Can't seem to deploy stuff to our cloud, and Github says we don't have any PRs in this repo, open or closed. The PRs simply are not there. I don't actually know if our last changes are in or not! [image]

• @paularambles @paularambles on x

  github not showing any PRs, it's a PR crisis

• @jpschroeder Justin Schroeder on x

  Uhhhg. I totally agree...and also kinda don't want to kill Github. I'm quite worried if we throw out Github we'll end up with a balkanized hellscape of half-used Mastadonish fiefdoms with reddit mod vibes — or worse, bluesky.

• @theo @theo on x

  Github has been down for most of the day. I'm so tired of this. Never been so ready to move on. [image]

• @bruvimtired Ahmet on x

  we should all get together and finish building gitbruv. i promise it has better downtime than GitHub.

• @chshersh Dmitrii Kovanikov on x

  It's never been a better time to finally explore alternatives to git and different version control models like Pijul https://pijul.org/

• @peer_rich @peer_rich on x

  i honestly think if you let people (somehow) migrate repos including stars; that would be huge haha so much of not moving off of github is this stupid stars vanity metric

• @hsvsphere @hsvsphere on x

  GitHub has reached six sevens of uptime.

• @0x45o @0x45o on x

  we need a new github that isn't under Microsoft

• @mrahmadawais Ahmad Awais on x

  all fixed now hugops to GitHub!

• @mrahmadawais Ahmad Awais on x

  Woke up to all our GitHub PRs gone. ☠️ [image]

• Ian Cooper Ian Cooper on linkedin

  One point I keep hearing from folks backing up their belief that agentic coding isn't raising productivity is that they don't see the flood of apps and features it ought to create. …

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  One big problem with GitHub availability is that they have long outgrown their shonky little data centre in Virginia; they started migrating to Azure properly (not just putting individual services on Azure) last October and they hope to do it in 12 months which is rebuilding the …

• @marlam.in Martin on bluesky

  This reaffirms my fears, really.  Crazy increase in what GitHub politically calls “agentic development”.  I feel like that softens the reality a little and it just means a ton of vibe coding is happening.  Existing developers using AI does not cause that kind of increase. github.…

• r/theprimeagen r on reddit

  An update on GitHub availability

• r/github r on reddit

  An update on GitHub availability

• r/programming r on reddit

  An update on GitHub availability

• r/hackernews r on reddit

  Ghostty is leaving GitHub

• @wesmckinn Wes McKinney on x

  I'm with @mitchellh — anyone who is paying attention is building a lifeboat right now.

• @elliotarledge Elliot Arledge on x

  “I'll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I'm also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).” what does this mean

• @forrestpknight Forrest Knight on x

  this is huge! first of many, if I were a betting man

• @melkeydev @melkeydev on x

  codeberg incoming

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  WOW. Mitchell Hashimoto voting with his feet: Ghostty is leaving GitHub. “I can't code with GitHub anymore. I'm sorry. After 18 years, I've got to go. I'd love to come back one day, but this will have to be predicated on real results and improvements, not words and promises.”

• @zcbenz Cheng on x

  GitHub was many people's dream job. Partly because employees were encouraged to speak publicly about the company, we could fly anywhere for conferences and company would cover all costs. IMO that's what GitHub should do now, let employees talk about what is going wrong there.

• @ashleywolf Ashley Wolf on x

  Like many Hubbers, I joined GitHub because I believe in open source and I want to build amazing things for maintainers. Ghostty has a special place in our 💜 so this hits hard. We need to do better, and tough moments like this push us to do more to make GitHub the best place for

• r/programmingcirclejerk r on reddit

  “I always made time for it ... During my honeymoon while my wife is still asleep?  Yeah, GitHub.  It's where I've historically been happiest and wanted to be.”

• @soumithchintala Soumith Chintala on x

  Github and critical work are becoming incompatible