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FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I wanted a little more functionality from my blog than what github pages using Jekyll could offer”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-27

• “I also build the GitHub repo as part of the product, not just as a code dump.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “I could pull it into github and edit local. That takes the pressure off the credits thing”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-12

• “have them in a private repository, and that opened up a lot of options for us. Once in the repo cloud agents for GitHub or codex or Claude can all hit it and ask questions”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-11

• “A Github Action running acme.sh that pushes certs to S3 solves the split dns issue for hosts”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “less dependencies on github, e.g. actions which sometimes don't work”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “renders on GitHub in markdown files with ```mermaid``` code blocks so it's super useful for adding architecture diagrams and similar to your README”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “Now I don't log in on github anymore because I'm afraid people is still requesting new features”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-28

• “I have both Google and Github Oauth flows added to this idea in code, and it works great for my purposes”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “a tool that gets triggered by new Github issues and simply works through them”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “GitHub Actions already has a Windows environment, and there was my loop: let the agent push to the repo, run tests in GHA, rinse and repeat. In under an hour it had a full rewrite of my Python, passing every test and producing row-for-row copies of my Parquet output.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “There are queries that you simply cannot run because you'd chew through your GitHub, et. al., API quotas. It takes over 48h to fully hydrate the database for GitHub items on my current project.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-21

• “clone my private repos off GitHub and host them without their limits”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “reruns failed GitHub actions in repositories with flakey tests 'cause why bother fixing them?”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “github is the 800# gorilla that defines the format and as long as gitlab and other clones can slurp in github project metadata (or at least PRs) then that effectively gets you closer”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “two hundred and eleven javascript files that GitHub loads on accessing an empty repo with just .md files”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-02

• “forced us to move from Atlassian BitBucket to GitHUb. What a mess.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “Windows and MacOS CI runners on Github - try to get this for free in EU”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-30

• “Github search is relatively easy to use on the mirror source code”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “didn't shield us from this as GitHub actions is still the control plane for triggering and monitoring them”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “github's copilot license of 19USD/seat/mo was kind of doggy? It had some limit on the tokens after which they'd start to charge per token usage?”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-23

• “Something cool that I've always liked about working at GitHub is how much of the company _runs on GitHub_”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-20

• “hard to beat GitHub Actions as they offer free runners for public repos and include a bunch of free hours for private repos”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “I do actually still operate in GitHub for development only work”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “Github for code hosting. I know, Microsoft, but it works and is not a hill I am willing to die on just yet.”

  LUKEWARM · Hacker News · 2026-05-13