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Why we're building a Github alternative (opens in new tab)

Something is shifting. Over the last year, projects I respect have packed up and left GitHub, not quietly, and not without explaining why. Ghostty announced it was leaving. Zig migrated to Codeberg. Plenty of individual developers have written their own version of the same story. These aren't fringe holdouts; they're some of the most thoughtful people building software today, and they've decided the place we've all called home for nearly two decades is no longer where they want to do serious ...

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