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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#81

Post by baepaul »

HyperL0gi wrote: post #74

> What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust The first unique characteristic is that it was built in Rust? Why does it matter from a user perspective? I was expecting the first point to be something that would convince me to check it out. Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software. I got a bit confused. Looking good regardless :)

fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future.

but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.)

we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out that we really liked it too.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#83

Post by xp84 »

usrbinenv wrote: post #80

No mobile version, but I'm visiting from a tablet, should work at least if switch to "Desktop" in the browser manually. I don't care if I get horizontal scroll - not showing your visitors anything at all is an automatic "I'm out". Second, when I browsed from an actual desktop, and clicked on links for files it was all slow as hell - specifically the part when you click on a file an expect it to just load, you instead…

I have to agree with the proposition that if you are aiming for the performant, no frills deal - and the aesthetic certainly telegraphs this - you really do not need client-side render, nor overengineered frontend frameworks like React & friends. Ditto for Styled Components (looks like you're not using the latter).

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#84

Post by johnisgood »

xp84 wrote: post #83
usrbinenv wrote: post #80

No mobile version, but I'm visiting from a tablet, should work at least if switch to "Desktop" in the browser manually. I don't care if I get horizontal scroll - not showing your visitors anything at all is an automatic "I'm out". Second, when I browsed from an actual desktop, and clicked on links for files it was all slow as hell - specifically the part when you click on a file an expect it to just load, you instead…

I have to agree with the proposition that if you are aiming for the performant, no frills deal - and the aesthetic certainly telegraphs this - you really do not need client-side render, nor overengineered frontend frameworks like React & friends. Ditto for Styled Components (looks like you're not using the latter).

I agree. I like the website, looks minimal, but minimalism is not reflected in the stack.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#85

Post by layer8 »

baepaul wrote: post #81
HyperL0gi wrote: post #74

> What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust The first unique characteristic is that it was built in Rust? Why does it matter from a user perspective? I was expecting the first point to be something that would convince me to check it out. Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software. I got a bit confused. Looking good regardless :)

fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future. but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.) we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out th…

While we're critiquing, the demographics that I'm part of has trouble taking someone seriously who is too lazy or sloppy to use the Shift key and complete punctutation.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#86

Post by gpm »

HyperL0gi wrote: post #74

> What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust The first unique characteristic is that it was built in Rust? Why does it matter from a user perspective? I was expecting the first point to be something that would convince me to check it out. Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software. I got a bit confused. Looking good regardless :)

> Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software.

Surely it is at least in part. We're talking about the announcement of a new open source project that isn't ready to use yet which would presumably enjoy people helping make it work for them, and a new startup around that open source project that is likely to be hiring in the future (or even maybe right now? Didn't check).

> Why does it matter from a user perspective

It implies that there was likely a small degree of rigour in the construction... not a large one (very little software has that)... and not a guarantee... but likely more than the abysmally small average in the software world.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#88

Post by dstanko »

layer8 wrote: post #85
baepaul wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future. but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.) we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out th…

While we're critiquing, the demographics that I'm part of has trouble taking someone seriously who is too lazy or sloppy to use the Shift key and complete punctutation.

totally agree we should not tollerate lack of shift key use and punctuation

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#89

Post by Simon-curtis »

This project looks awesome. I’ve really enjoyed your blogs about the design process and learnings. Brave to jump into Rust while learning a new domain but very commendable. Wish I had a close programmer friend to do this stuff with, sounds like a great asset to have such great chemistry.

You seem to be experienced devs, so I’m sure you already know, but don’t listen to the contrarians on HN. They’ll suck the life out of you because it’s not 100% the way they like it.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

#90

Post by nine_k »

baepaul wrote: post #70
alienbaby wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't work for me even when I chose to see the desktop site in my mobile browser :/

it is based off a minimum pixel as of now, apologies. the overall reason why we didn't ship a mobile site is that code is inherently very hard to read on mobile and i think to do that properly, you have to design explicitly for it. (and that is not, in fact, something that i do want to vibe code)

At least it would be reasonable to show a message like "Sorry, no mobile support yet".
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