Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

kept by eddie dec 17, 25

GitHub backtracks on a per-minute platform fee for self-hosted Action runners after heavy backlash, while cutting hosted-runner prices by up to 39%.

It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed
An unclosed loop in GitHub Actions workflows caused Gemini CLI's label-adding and -removing bots to fight over 4,600 times, flooding the issue with notifications.
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GitHub Actions is the weakest link
GitHub Actions' default features—mutable tags, pull_request_target, template injection, and write-scoped tokens—have enabled a chain of supply-chain attacks on open-source registries, and GitHub's opt-in security roadmap won't fix the root causes.
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The next GitHub is not worth winning — David Poblador i Garcia
The author argues that most development work is ephemeral and should stay local, proposing a staging area where experiments remain on‑device until they merit pushing to GitHub.
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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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Insider amnesia
Speculation about internal tech company problems is almost always wrong because outsiders lack the insider context needed to understand the real issues.
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