Why I Left GitHub and Moved to git.gay
The Platform Started Feeling Different
For a long time, I used GitHub because it felt like the normal place to host code and share projects with other developers. It was simple to use, familiar to almost everyone, and for a while it genuinely felt like a good place to build things.
At first, the platform felt open.
Uploading repositories, managing projects, and collaborating with others felt natural. It was easy to focus on coding without thinking too much about the platform itself, and that was part of what made it enjoyable.
Premium Features Changed the Experience
As time passed, GitHub slowly started changing.
More features began appearing behind premium plans, and the platform started feeling less like a place for developers and more like a service constantly trying to sell a better version of itself. Tools that should have felt like part of the normal experience started feeling restricted unless someone was willing to pay for more access.
That slowly changed the atmosphere.
Instead of simply being a place to write and share code, GitHub started feeling like a platform where convenience was becoming a paid feature. The more that happened, the less enjoyable the experience became.
Losing the Enjoyment of Coding There
The biggest problem was not just the subscriptions.
It was the way those changes affected the feeling of using the platform.
Coding should feel creative. It should feel personal. It should feel like building something because you want to. But when the platform around that work keeps reminding you about paid upgrades, it can slowly take away the excitement that made you want to be there in the first place.
That was what happened for me.
The more GitHub changed, the less it felt like a place I actually wanted to stay.
Moving to git.gay
Eventually, I decided to leave GitHub and move my projects to git.gay instead.
The difference felt immediate.
git.gay felt lighter, simpler, and far more comfortable to use. Instead of feeling like every useful feature was part of a paid tier, the platform felt focused on what mattered most, the code itself.
That made a huge difference.
Why git.gay Feels Better
What makes git.gay better for me is not just that it works.
It is that the platform feels more genuine.
It feels like a place made for people who actually care about coding rather than a place built around turning developers into subscribers. The interface feels cleaner, the experience feels more open, and the platform stays out of the way so the focus can remain on creating projects.
That alone made coding feel enjoyable again.
A Better Place to Build
Leaving GitHub was not just about moving repositories from one platform to another.
It was about leaving behind a platform that no longer felt the way it once did and finding one that still feels comfortable to use.
For me, git.gay brought back something GitHub slowly lost.
It made coding feel simple again.