I’m Nat Friedman, future CEO of GitHub. AMA. https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/
PS: the number of people that moved out of GitHub is ridiculous
@angristan Those of us considering this seriously haven't had time to make a choice and set a plan in motion. Expect this number to go up as bigger projects and organizations reach a decision. The acquisition was announced 5 days ago...
@alienghic @angristan I personally recognize that GitLab has become the better product (free private repos, integrated CI, group boards, self-hostable). I am mostly using GitHub for legacy (and publicity) reasons. We'll see if Microsoft gets GitHub out of feature stagnation...
@remram44 @angristan Another thing that might happen is more people will use GitHub as a glorified off-site backup, instead of using it as their primary mode of social coding engagement. (vis-a-vis the Linux source repositories on GitHub. They exist, and you can follow them, but submitting PRs against them is fruitless.)
@remram44 @angristan Also all of us who were using github were still compromising on the ideals of free software. It'll take a while before we start to see if they'll start to push more difficult compromises on us.