I honestly see this specific bruhaha as more of a DNF issue and less of a github issue. Even though both are affiliated with Microsoft, I dont think this is the same as SourceForge’s fall from grace.
I can imagine copilot being another point in the not-so-good direction, but is there anything else you are thinking of when comparing Githubs trajectory to SourceForges?
I'm curious about this. I've used sourceforge for nearly two decades, but I was skeptical of it well before the controversial takeover. There are certain UI elements that sourceforge used and uses that I always relate with early 2000s click-the-monkey style ads and malware. I still trust certain button styles more than others. I still trust certain website themes more than others. Well before GitHub was the juggernaut of open source it was, I felt like I had some instinct of legitimacy compared to sourceforge or self-hosted subversion or tortoisesvn.
I think this is an important classification. When I, and I assume many of the people here, see an email to them or a friend that looks legitimate, we check the sender's full email (as opposed to the shorthand displayed, which is meaningless), and often don't click on any links, opting to physically type a url into our browser and navigate to where we should instead. There's some feeling that something is funny, in the same way some people don't buy thousands of dollars of cheap makeup from Avon and others do.
I still trust GitHub and am a happy customer. I don't think they're going the way of the buffalo. I definitely can see how (again, not an opinion I hold), one could perceive UI/UX changes that they don't like as a sign of imminent downfall.
The understanding of natural instincts in relation to simpler interactions have some reasonable explanations, albeit not universally agreed upon. How dare we have the audacity to claim an understanding of human instincts when it comes to the youngest universal man-made change to our species possibly ever?
I can imagine copilot being another point in the not-so-good direction, but is there anything else you are thinking of when comparing Githubs trajectory to SourceForges?