Microsoft is ruining Github

Textbook case of Enshittification

At this point MS is just having an internal competition on which division can make the stupidest decision, the person who wins is the next CEO

My guess is that they're anchoring. They put out something they know everyone will hate. Then they walk it back, and come out with a slightly less bad thing a little later, which everyone will see as "better than what they did before". So I expect some other shitty announcement in a couple weeks.

If github were purely B2B, they would 100% get away with this. But companies keep forgetting that the consumer market reacts very differently to pricing changes than businesses

Imagine charging for self hosted CI...

I love how the new GitHub view tells you diffs are too large to view or there are too many files to show. Like what? That was a non issue on the old view. Enshittification is out of control.

Moved to a single bash file that runs my deployment on a local machine, build times went from 11minutes on github actions to 28 seconds on a single rack that cost us 1,300$ once.

"i don't want to pay for cloud compute and have my data who-knows-where, i will just host it myself" "oh yeah, we'll need money for that too" "what"

Gitlab is just sitting right over there

Currently in college, and the amount of online account sign ins and random pop-ups asking for nonsense on W11 is wild. Every time one of my instructors logs into a machine, they struggle to simply access a simple website and PowerPoint because of the OS.