GitHub User Quits Over Outages, AI
Özgür Adem Işıklı says he abandoned GitHub after reliability problems and distrust over how Microsoft uses hosted code in AI training. He moved private repositories to self-hosted Forgejo, canceled GitHub Copilot, and plans to reduce his remaining dependence on GitHub.
The strongest argument here is operational independence: hosted convenience loses its shine when outages and opaque data practices collide.
- –Self-hosted Forgejo restores control over private code, but shifts backups, security, uptime, and CI maintenance onto the developer.
- –Hacker News commenters echoed the reliability concern, including an Actions outage that blocked an ARM Docker image release.
- –GitHub’s ecosystem remains its moat: discoverability, collaboration, integrations, and contributors are difficult to reproduce elsewhere.
- –The migration highlights a growing split between developers who prioritize sovereignty and those who prioritize network effects.
- –This is a sharp personal critique, not evidence that GitHub is broadly losing developers at scale.
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2026-08-29
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2026-08-28
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