Jamie Tanna (Dec 16 2025 at 22:47): Jamie Tanna (Dec 16 2025 at 22:47): Jamie Tanna (Dec 16 2025 at 22:48):There's some (mostly reasonable) discussion on Hacker News, but it's an interesting one and will be interesting to see how things pan out
Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 17 2025 at 07:11):i've noticed a bunch of sign ups on tangled.org , potentially as a result of GitHub enshittification
James McNally (Dec 17 2025 at 07:57):I generally use gitlab but have one customer who wanted to use GitHub because it was cost free. I was considering migrating the actions to gitlab still as my gitlab runners are more robust and better support windows docker (we need windows builds)
It will be interesting to cost this up now. I don't begrudge having to charge for things but I am on the side of the sentiment that actions feel like a bad product which I can swallow for free but any payment wrong
Don MacKinnon (Dec 17 2025 at 17:25):The feedback i have been hearing on LinkedIn and BlueSky has been pretty negative about this change.
Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 17 2025 at 20:10):I'm all for customers knowing how much it costs to run a service and paying their fair share, and it should be this way from the very beginning
I resent business models that rely on burning cash for decades as a path to monopoly, this is just another kind of rug pull
and I resent the investors that enable this business model
Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 17 2025 at 20:11):also, how much of this fee is actually going to orchestrating GitHub Actions? and how much of it is going to GPUs and LLM data centres completely unrelated to Actions?
Don MacKinnon (Dec 18 2025 at 17:37):Annnnd they walked it back https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186
Adam Stacoviak (Dec 18 2025 at 19:23):I think the damage is done. The dev world is now making changes to de-GitHub their stack in various ways.
Adam Stacoviak (Dec 18 2025 at 19:24):Yesterday was the first time I questioned leading with GitHub auth vs magic link + auth code.
Adam Stacoviak (Dec 18 2025 at 19:26):To be clear, they should charge appropriately for the control plane. Id be interested in a conversation about what it actually takes to run Actions.
Adam Stacoviak (Dec 18 2025 at 19:26):Is charging for Releases next?
Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 18 2025 at 21:43):we had https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/ already, too
Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 18 2025 at 21:45):it's awkward for the Rust ecosystem, because crates.io only offers GitHub authentication, and the official builds run on donated GitHub Actions
but it'd be so nice for it to be more independent
Ron Waldon-Howe (Dec 18 2025 at 21:48):maybe, ultimately, this is how open-source gets sustainably funded? we all self-host our repositories in tangled.org or radicle.xyz or similar, and if a big corporation uses our code and puts heavy load on our servers, they have to pay us for the self-hosting costs plus a little bit on top?
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