Goodbye Github
February 12, 2026I end up moving public source code repositories about as often as I move in real life. It isn't much different: I end up cleaning up a lot of stuff that should have been done a long time ago, deciding what to take, and what to leave behind.
I started out on Sourceforge in 1999. Sourceforge had some financial difficulties and IIRC moved to a paid model, so I moved my stuff over to Google Code. Google Code shut down in about 2015 so I moved again to Github. I started using Github as my private code repsitory and have ~70 projects hosted there, only a handful of them are public.
Unlike Sourceforge and Google Code, I'm not being forced away from Github, just for various reaons it is easier to host my private stuff on my own equipment. Plus no 2FA, anonymous email accounts, and AI scraping. I'm leaving my public repositories and forks there for now.