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Does anyone remember the arbitrary actions GitHub has taken in the past few months and all the "maybe it's time to start leaving GitHub if you want to avoid getting your repositories permanently deleted?"

Or is HN just as susceptible to the narrow news horizon?

>>zentig+(OP)
Or maybe different people have different needs and HN isn't a single cohesive hive mind

>>zentig+(OP)
Microsoft/GitHub is doing something clever this time. They know where the developers are and know that the new consumers are developers, hence 'devsumers'.

So how does Microsoft make them happy? Give 'em free stuff: Free repositories, student pack, ebooks, courses, cloud credits, etc and they come running back to GitHub. There's Sign in with GitHub which makes it easy to claim all the freebies, unlike the rest of the alternatives.

This is why the majority of developers will stay and some would realise that it will all go down and will leave Github and self-host their own git server instead.

>>ketral+D1
Fair enough... Hence also why Google have plenty of Apps users etc even though they have a long track record of dropping even popular products at their whim.

Thanks for reminding me that it really is to each their own, and good luck to you on your path.