Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
Points and comments are a snapshot, not live.
A handful of prominent open-source projects are leaving GitHub, citing reliability, AI, and political concerns.
GitHub hosts over 600 million repositories with a new user joining every second, but some high-profile projects have departed. Ghostty, a terminal emulator, and Zig, a system programming language, both announced they would leave, citing frequent outages as a primary driver. Tenacity and the Dillo browser also migrated. Incidents of 112 hours of downtime across 48 major outages from May 2025 were tracked. Other critiques include GitHub's relationship with ICE, integration of Copilot AI, and requiring non-free JavaScript to run, as noted by the GNU Project.
What commenters are saying
Many commenters shared deep distrust of GitHub and Microsoft, citing specific grievances like a 3-week CI shutdown over a wrongful ban, rate-limiting on basic access, and a perceived 89% uptime. Some argued the article exaggerates a trend, noting only a handful of projects have left. Others pointed to competitors like Gitea and Forgejo as viable, lightweight self-hosted alternatives with increasingly similar UIs. A few criticized the headline's implication that 'developers' broadly are leaving when most still use GitHub.