If I Could Make My Own GitHub

kept by eddie may 01

A tech-titan fantasy dream of building a new forge that fixes GitHub's flaws with stacked PRs, pre-commit feedback, flexible approvals, and tiny self-hostable units.

GitHub is sinking – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
GitHub has become unreliable and slop-filled under Microsoft, prompting users to migrate to alternative Git forges.
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GitHub Stacked PRs
GitHub now natively supports stacked pull requests within monorepos, enabling developers to break large changes into smaller, reviewable PRs.
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Git Is Not Fine
Git's immutable commit model makes stacked PRs, async workflows, and partial-state editing genuinely painful despite its success as a distributed source store.
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Twenty Years of Stacking Commits — jd:/dev/blog
Stacked commits, not monolithic PRs, are the correct unit of code review—a truth Gerrit knew in 2008 that AI's speed and tooling like Mergify Stack are now forcing GitHub to finally admit with its native stacked PRs feature.
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This is why PR diff speed matters. This isn't a dunk on GitHub specifically, because GitLab, Forgejo, etc. are all equal or worse. But this
PR diff rendering is often so slow across GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo that expert users experience frame drops and input lag, making the tool a bottleneck.
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