What do you like best about GitHub?
For my company, GitHub is very important. We are currently a web- and physical office-based taxi and travels company, but we are expanding to a mobile platform. We use GitHub for our backend code and then integrate it with Render. We also publish our websites there for testing.
The most important part for us is GitHub Actions. Every time we edit the code, it automatically pushes and redeploys to Render. The webhook is also helpful, because we don’t need to push manually. During development, in a single day we may need to update code many times, so this saves my team effort and time. Branch protection is also good.
In development we add many features, like a bid system, so with new branches we can manage everything properly. We don’t need to make multiple repos for the same code. Pull requests are also very important because they allow my team’s senior engineers to review the changes from juniors before deployment, so it doesn’t cause us to repeat mistakes.
We also use GitHub Copilot, and it is very good and intelligent for coding; in my opinion it’s one of the best. The Actions tab also shows clearly if there is any issue in the code during deployment, and GitHub environment security is easy to manage. However, it is slightly deep if we want to change something: we first go to Settings, then Secrets, then Actions. I think it should be more direct. The suggested changes feature is also good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about GitHub?
Well, there are some big problems, especially with notifications. It’s natural that when many people are working and there are lots of updates, the notification section can become a real issue. Many times, important notifications get buried under simple ones like code push, etc., and we face this problem often. It’s good that it notifies us, and it also alerts us when there’s a critical bug in the code, but code push notifications can still bury the bug notifications.
Also, currently there is a delay in actions. When we deploy, many times it takes longer and feels slow. Previously it was fast, but in the last 2 to 3 months we’ve seen it taking more time and slowing down. Even when we publish the page, it takes time.
On the other hand, the GitHub remote repo is good for pushing files from a local PC to the repo. But when we try to upload files manually, we can only upload 100 files at a time. It’s normal to have more than 100 files in one go, even for backend work, like a ride-hailing backend.
Overall, I don’t find any major issue, and according to me GitHub is well developed in terms of tech and features, and it feels honest for most users. Still, some normal things are bad. They should give simple options like stopping push/update notifications, and make deployments fast again. Also, there are many new features in the UI, which is good, but it makes it harder to find the settings and features that I want. With time I can understand it as an engineer, but not as a founder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
