GitHub Enshittification
GitHub has experienced ongoing service outages, security vulnerabilities, and reliability issues, including problems with Actions, merges, and Copilot's aggressive data usage. Microsoft's integration of GitHub into its CoreAI division has raised concerns about prioritizing AI initiatives over platform stability. As a result, some projects like Gentoo and Ghostly are migrating away, and users are encouraged to consider alternative platforms.
- ▪GitHub has had less than one 9 of uptime (85.51%) over the past 90 days according to an unofficial status page.
- ▪CVE-2026-3854 is a remote code execution vulnerability that has been identified in GitHub's systems.
- ▪Copilot trains on users' code without regard to license or privacy settings, and telemetry was quietly added to GitHub CLI.
- ▪Gentoo and Ghostly are migrating away from GitHub due to Copilot practices and service outages, respectively.
- ▪Microsoft has previously pledged to improve security, but continued issues have undermined trust in those commitments.
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This time it'll be different...Recent GitHub problems:Repeated service outages. GitHub currently has less than one 9 of uptime (85.51%) over the last 90 days according to the (unofficial) Missing GitHub Status Page.Stalled GitHub Actions, even for jobs on self-hosted runners.Broken squash merges in PRs.CVE-2026-3854, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.Copilot: Aggressive marketing, training on users’ code without regard to the license or repository privacy setting 1, and sudden price increases.Telemetry quietly added to GitHub CLI 1.Gentoo and Ghostly are migrating away from GitHub; the former because of the aggressive Copilot marketing, and the latter because of the repeated outages.Microsoft has apologized and vowed to do better, but I think GitHub will continue to…
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