Jenkins
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
2warn against
Dec 1, 2025first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I’m intensely grateful that despite rumblings, the company I contract to hasn’t switched from self-hosted Jenkins to GHA.”
contractoron “GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties”
Caveats and dissent
“GitHub Actions is the worst CI tool I’ve ever used (maybe tied with Jenkins)”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub 2 mentions
- GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team 2 mentions
- GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? 1 mention
- GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties 1 mention
- Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc 1 mention
- Fossil versus Git 1 mention
Data: jenkins.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“I was actually a part-time Jenkins admin back in high school and college.”
“one giant in-house box running Jenkins”
“you will be just fine in GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins”
“I’m intensely grateful that despite rumblings, the company I contract to hasn’t switched from self-hosted Jenkins to GHA.”
“I've always deployed to AWS via Jenkins”
“Jenkins was and probably still is horrible. I don't want to go back. However, it had some pretty good features I still miss”
“GitHub Actions is the worst CI tool I’ve ever used (maybe tied with Jenkins)”
“we use jenkins at work”
“But Jenkins and its own quirks”