That’s interesting. I would have said the opposite. I’ve never used any of the social features, but the technical aspects (including integrations) are where the value is.
It does break and go down; and GHA are a real pain in the ass. But the basic hosting and PR workflow are fine.
The site UI has been going downhill these years. It's become heavy and slow, and the buttons are more and more randomly placed. Like after you search for something in the repo, to go back to the repo front page you needed to click on the most unexpected button.
It's still getting things done, for sure, but no longer pleasant to work with.
I think Github has a nice UI.....when the contents finishes loading.
That's the real problem with Github these days. Too much critical information behind throbbers that take their sweet time. I find Codeberg much more responsive, despite being an ocean away and having the occasional anti-AI-scraper screen.
The PR workflow is fine if you don’t care about stacked PRs, you don’t write reviews, you don’t read nontrivial reviews, and you don’t need the diff viewer.