> a handful of remotely meaningful repos

If there's a trend to leave a platform it won't start with the most entrenched users (largest repos).

They acknowledge your concern in the article and their analysis does apply to those few who are leaving. But to be fair the title can be interpreted either way and the most reasonable read for anyone is "some of them are leaving". I'd find it clickbaity if they said "why developers are leaving en-masse" and then point out to the regular turnover. There's clearly a trend, what's not clear is if it gains momentum.

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esperent an hour ago | parent [-]

> If there's a trend

That's the point being made. Is there a trend? How do we know?

There's always some repos moving between hosting providers for all kinds of reasons. The burden of proof is on the author here to show there's been an increase and they don't do that.

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conartist6 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

The early adopters are leaving. These are the people that will blaze a trail that others follow.

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esperent 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Which early adopters exactly? The most prominent example they gave is ghostty which has existed for just a couple of years, notwithstanding the fact that the owner published a spiel about how he's been using it for longer.

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jorisw 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You could say that any time two distant psychos roll their Teslas off a rocky cliff and then exclaim "Why Tesla drivers are dumping their cars".

And not provide any other meaningful data

	▲	conartist6 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Rolling your car off a cliff isn't the same thing. This would be more like you want to drive your Tesla into the jungle so you build a road as you go. The key problem is not losing the cars but losing the road builders who are now no longer building roads that lead to you, but rather roads that lead away