I wrote them off after the adware stuff, but it’s seemed back to normal on visits in the last couple of years. Wikipedia says the bad owners sold it to the owners of Slashdot in 2016. So, maybe?
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i like the “community” aspect of a central shared search for projects, the built-in issues and wiki.
to swear off github for my own projects is easy, except for all the libraries hosted there. it’s almost a default of certain languages for people to put their code there because of all the fee free options
google and epic both host software there. it will be interesting to see what, if anything, they do
thanks! i really should have scrolled down first 
i really don’t like git. it feels over engineered it almost every way, but it works, doesn’t litter your hard drive with random files, and doesn’t ( in my experience ) suffer complete unrecoverable meltdowns in the presence of large numbers of binary files… unlike a certain other mentioned software
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I love mercurial.
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It’s built for one of the most complicated development project in existence*. It is almost certainly overengineered for your use cases.
I find it scales down pretty gracefully and then scales up extremely well. But reasonable people can disagree about it. 
[*] The Linux kernel is possibly the most socially complicated dev community ever. They had to write their own system when bitkeeper blew up.
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Github doesn’t own git. And the owners/developers of git are in no way responsible for the hiring/firing decisions at github.
Github is just a repository host, and there are plenty of competitors like bitbucket and gitlab that offer the same basic service.
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“upload to moisthub” 
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I strongly recommend not googling “GitMoist.” 
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Back in the early 1940s, my great-uncle got medals for shooting Nazis in North Africa.
I have precisely zero minutes for jingoistic rah-rah war memorial celebrations. I think most wars were horrible mistakes-made-on-purpose. But shooting Nazis - I’m ok with that war.
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I use gitlab. No complaints, can recommend people migrate there.
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Thanks for the clarification.
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Confirmed from other shots: the back of his shirt reads “Staff.”
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He put the wall on his arm. Mother would approve.
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I was just about to criticise the protestor in the Auschwitz hoodie, but now I realise how divisive that would have been.
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If you don’t mind (or perhaps prefer) something a little more minimal, Sourcehut is a great option as well.
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For those of you looking to migrate away from Github, I recommend Gitlab for your private (hobby) repos, and BitBucket for company repos, or Gitlab in a box. The beauty of Git means it’s a snap to migrate all branches, tags and history, and I have done it in the past.
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Microsoft owns Github.
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I run multiple gitlab servers, the CE version, but we host hundreds of repos, their hosted one is using the same platform, and I really like it as a front end for administrative purposes.
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Yeah, i just don’t know WTF has gotten into GitHub’s head, they used to be reasonable. At this point, I will self-host GitLab for my next project.
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