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If the Microsoft purchase of Github wasn't a good indicator of the start of the end, this is it, I know a lot of people like to have "control" over things, but I have found so many fixes for software I use in un-merged PRs. Github moving towards closer and a closer system is good opp for alternatives to take some of that space. Nice.

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This "Microsoft ruined GitHub" doom talk is getting tiresome. That was 8 years ago.

One of the big changes right after that was offering free private repositories, most people complaining today would've probably not even used GitHub if there were only free public repositories.

While that was a nice change, don't kid yourself: Github was the dominant platform before that for a reason, and the alternatives were either behind in features or very new. I'm doubtful that if they still had the old pricing structure for private repos that it'd change anything about their success.

Also, the old structure reflected their focus/encouragement of open source, something this change does even more to move away from.

At the same time, I don't view this as a huge issue, though it does make me wish it was easier to get activity details on forks so even if a repo is locked down it would let you see where PRs "went".

> Also, the old structure reflected their focus/encouragement of open source, something this change does even more to move away from.

Open source projects are the main driver of this change, every popular open source projects gets a lot of drive by AI pull requests that waste maintainers’ time. Projects come up with their own way of blocking people (https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/.github/VOU...) but having this be a GitHub feature is a much easier option for most.

I think you missed the part where open-source developers are begging Github to implement this feature and threatening to leave otherwise.

For example who?

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