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Comment by bulbar | Hacker News Reader

Acquisition of GitHub let to increased downtimes, but also to unlimited private repos for the free tier.

The unlimited private repos for free tier would have happened anyways. You have to remember that this was around the time people were jumping ship from GitHub exactly because they didn't offer private repos for free. It was something many wanted, and they were actively seeking out other places that would give it to them.

I'm not convinced that's the case. GitHub was like that forever, they were well established and the change happened not long after Microsoft bought them. There was no global shift to gitlab instances or Atlassian as far as I am aware.

You can dislike an entity or an action and still acknowledge it also had some positive effects.

Overall GitHub still got significantly worse since the acquisition. Downtime was essentially zero before.

Usage was 5% of what it is now before.

It was unreliable post acq. and before the slop-tsunami, the latter has just multiplied the underlying issue of their ipv4 only half assed azure migration.

I only ever used GitHub for private (and a few public) repos, so for me personally it got significantly better, being able to have private repos for free.

Pretty bad tradeoff of course, improving the situation for non paying people while making it bad for paying customers.

... Which gitlab already had before github. And still does.

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