The only thing surprising is that it took Microsoft almost three years to turn on the shit-spigot.

Honestly for selfhosters, I can't recommend enough setting up an instance of Gitea. You'll be very happy hosting your code and such there, then just replicate it to github or something if you want it on the big platforms.

The writing was on the wall when they established a generative AI using everyone's code and of course without asking anyone for permission.

I moved all my open source projects to Gitlab the day Microsoft announced they were acquiring Github.

(I wish in retrospect I'd taken the time to research and decide on the right host. I likely would have gone to Codeberg instead of Gitlab had I done so. But Gitlab's still better than Github. And I don't really know for sure that Codeberg was even around back when Microsoft acquired Github.)

I'm honestly blown away by whomever finds this surprising. This is Microsoft we're talking about. Everything they touch turns into this. Taking what is not theirs, using it for profit, and not even giving credit where credit is due.

Hold up, are you sure you can’t view Discussions or Wiki? Which sites can you not view them?

I’m fine viewing them for public repos that I usually visit.

Asking to make sure that Github is not slowly rolling out this lockdown.

What are good alternatives to GitHub except selfhosting? I only know gitlab.com. Anything else?

They also broke some stuff with some javascript, I think. I'm using KDE's web browser (Falkon) and it used to work well.

I just checked, and unless I'm missing something, you're wrong? Tried https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki in private browser mode. Seems to work fine.. Discussions work too.

And the restricted code search is not a big deal. You can still see and download all the source code you want and search that way. What usecase do you have for code searching without login? Lemmy is restricted too without login (as well as literally everything). The funny thing is that the last person I saw make a huge deal of this on Lemmy/Reddit, didn't have a huge number of github commits over the years (they definitely had some, so they were active though, but even our newbies at work overtook them in months)

Creating a login is free too, and so is downloading source code. Github is a FREE service lol.. And you're whinging you need to create a free login? If you don't like Github, then don't use it lol. Absolutely nothing is preventing anyone migrating lol

I'm still stuck on why I have to create a password-equivalent API token, and then store it on my hard drive if I want an at-all-convenient workflow.

"We made it more secure!"

"How is storing it on my hard drive more secure"

"Just have it expire after a week!"

"How is it more secure now, seems like now there are two points of failure in the system, and anyway I keep hearing about security problems in github which this hasn't been a solution to any of them"

"SHUT UP THAT'S HOW"

I'm not a developer so I'm not very familiar with this world. But it kind of amazes me that the code for so many open source projects are hosted by Microsoft. Isn't there a FOSS alternative? edit: seems Gitlab is an alternative. Then the question is, why are people using microsoft products?

Compared to Gitlab, it definitely is shit already. And that has nothing to do with the artificial restrictions. God I hate this website. I appreciate their service, but the UI is genuinely trash.

You don't need the question mark. If something is for-profit (or can be used for profit) then sooner or later it will be enshittified.

They have teams of people whose entire job is figuring out ways to wring a few more cents from somebody. Put them at the helm of a company that's stood for 1000 years and they'll be thrilled at how easy it will be to use that name to sell plastic dogshit at a premium price.

What about the time they fired their artists and then immediately wrote a blog post congratulating themselves for making AI art from a model trained on the ex-employees' art. Inspiring.