GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

The post points to GitHub's recent outages as a breaking point, arguing that since Microsoft acquired it, the platform has become bloated and lost its direction, caring less about customers. The author calls for a community 'kill switch' — a threshold where users collectively decide to abandon GitHub if reliability doesn't improve.

A commenter notes there is no single obvious alternative, so users would scatter across multiple services. While those services satisfy core source-control and PR-review needs, the emergent features of a central community and default discoverability would be lost. The author hopes GitHub addresses the problems, warning the network effect won't last with continued outages.