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People didn't move when it became a social network, when Microsoft bought it, or when their IA scanned the whole code to make money from open-source projects. Only Musk buying it would change that a bit, but it still wouldn't not destroy it.
As for me, I don't have an account. My personal projects stay private, and for work I have pro accounts at GitLab or Azure DevOps.
If the social features become too egregious. It's already turning into borderline LinkedIn with their new feed updates
Have you seen all the people just stuffing their profile README full of random graphics and stats and badges
I use GitHub as an off-site backup for personal projects for over a decade now. I don't think I'll be moving away for any reason.
My own Git server.
it's free and convenient? if there was another reliable, free git host with a polished web interface and decent cli for features like issues, sure, I'd consider moving to it. I'm not in the market though, I have other work to do
also the github actions workflows are brilliant.
I want to have separated accounts for different sets of project...
Signed up a second account... it got suspended instantly (after I log in with my main). According to ToS, I can't have more than one account.
Nuh uh, You aren't the only provider. Headed to Gitlab, no more bs.
Was this with the same email address? I have multiple accounts for personal and work. I sometimes log out of one account and into another in the same browser, and have never had a problem. Honestly never thought it'd be a big deal.
No. Maybe it flagged dynamic IP as spam or whatever. At this point I don't really care. Got what I want.
Already moved in the sense that I am not creating any new projects on GH. I am rehosting old projects opportunistically. No plans to get rid of the account unless GH does something really messed up.
I mirror all my stuff on Gitlab just in case GitHub goes away, it probably won't happen but I like having backups! :)
As someone who has to use Azure DevOps for work, I can safely say GitHub is safe. Microsoft put so much effort into while Azure DevOps seems like an after thought to them now.
Simple. I would switch if there was something better available. Nothing else I've tried is even close to as good.
I use it for work so to entirely leave it they'd have to move away. That seems unlikely.
Don't know if anyone remembers but private repo's used to be restricted on GitHub, so I actually use BitBucket for most of my private stuff.
Feels like it wouldn't take much change for me to leave with my own stuff although some presence would always be necessary due to contributions. I don't use any of the "features" of GH though, except for pages and that's for work.
It would take a lot to get me to start using it. Git is great, and GitHub is a mess.
What are you on now? Codeberg?
Self-hosted Gitea.
What do you use for CICD? And AFAIK federation hasn't been implemented yet, right?
I know this will come as a shock to a lot of people, but a lot of software doesn't do CI/CD. Especially CD. Basically only webapps can do CD, although Dropbox is close with weekly releases. A lot of enterprise and industry software still does quarterly or even semiannual releases. Hospitals, banks, and government agencies in particular have stringent vetting procedures that mean they can spend months verifying and approving a new major version before upgrading, so there's no point throwing one at them every couple weeks.
Someone creates an alternative that is federated by default, like Lemmy. But additionally it is fault tolerant, i.e. if one instance goes down, my account will still live on on another, and so will the repositories and all their associated data.
This is the world I want to live in.
My account has not seen a single commit in years now, and yet I can let it go... I still "need" it for support on an old project of mine that I share with other people, and to submit changes for projects I care about which are only on GitHub.
I also keep my account for name squatting purposes, and so people can find the link to my actual repo.
I don't think I'll go all the way to delete my account, but my projects are definitely not reliant on it anymore.