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So GitHub (Microsoft) continues to venture way beyond just source control and it's directly related areas, into a much more overall "development" strategy, seemingly echoing what GitLab have been doing for a while.

It's sad to see GitHub moving slowly into spreading itself too thin, instead of just improving the platform they have. They now try to replace CI services, donation platforms and now remote code editors.

Seems their core service is still holding up so far, but with all these moves in different directions, I'm getting a bit worried that the SCM and software collaboration part will be left out. I think GitHub becoming SourceForgeV2 is closer than people think. It's bound to happen at one point.

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> It's sad to see GitHub moving slowly into spreading itself too thin

People have been saying this every time GitHub has added a feature that wasn't SCM. How is this time any different?

> I think GitHub becoming SourceForgeV2 is closer than people think. It's bound to happen at one point.

How do you possibly jump from Codespaces to SourceForgeV2, and somehow proclaim it as certainty?

Since when is saying "I think" considered to "proclaim as certainty"?

It's literally in the quote: "It's bound to happen at one point."

> instead of just improving the platform they have. They now try to replace CI services, donation platforms and now remote code editors.

Aren't they in the category of "improving the platform they have"? What exactly do you want Github to be improved then?

They now try to replace CI services, donation platforms and now remote code editors.

I am not too worried about spreading themselves too thinly. GitHub Actions is much nicer than some of the competitors I used before (though I still love sr.ht builds).

Also, it would be bad for them not to branch out. GitLab is now a strong competitor and they also provide many features beyond code hosting, such as CI, registries, etc.

It is nice that there are three large players now (GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian). GitHub was stagnant for a while, but they seem to be moving fast again after GitLab became a serious competitor. It's a clear case where competition is benefitting the users, both in price and in platform capabilities.

By this logic, Apple should have stuck to Macs and never created the iPhone..

I'm not sure it's bound to happen. They're owned by a trillion dollar company and Github is a super important tool in their overall developer strategy.

based on what is it bound to happen

> Seems their core service is still holding up so far, but with all these moves in different directions, I'm getting a bit worried that the SCM and software collaboration part will be left out.

They literally just made teams cheaper and added to their free tier.

Indeed, the signal to noise ratio for GitHub is pretty rapidly decreasing. It's getting a lot harder to find the important details on any given page.

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