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Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

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Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#71

this piques my interest. i've been looking for a set of project hosting and management tools which are deeply integrated with each other and with very minimal UIs designed as an extension of the tool's inherent abstractions, rather than obscuring the tool behind "simple" UI abstractions which ultimately force opinionated workflows. the only thing that's missing for this to be useful to me is code review. re: the UI,…

Would you say Fossil (https://fossil-scm.org) forces an opinionated workflow?

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#73
post #20

I adore the aesthetic! Absolutely smooth web design; top notch work Drew. Just registered and hope to familiarize myself with everything. This is one of the few "Show HN" projects I've felt compelled to actually try. Heck, I'm so charmed by it I want to contribute. What a lovely Thursday morning discovery.

Agree. Simple and not over-engineered.

>not over-engineered

Always keep in mind that many people have an interest in ensuring their own job remains relevant and necessary. How else can you explain e.g. google's constant UI changes? Designer's keeping themselves busy (even though there are no real reasons for the changes)!

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#74
post #72

Looks fantastic, I just signed up to try it out. Small ux thing; the nav bar on top are different for every subdomain. Probably easier to navigate if the elements are in fixed positions.

Thanks for signing up!

They're ordered by the time you accessed each last. I agree that this is, in retrospect, unintuitive and poorly designed. Will be reverting it soon enough.

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#75

I love this, and wish it well. I currently host my personal repositories on GitLab, as I see the monoculture that has developed around GitHub to be dangerous for the community in the long term. I went ahead and created an account on sr.ht, and subscribed for the $20 / year plan. Whether or not I end up using the service (though I think I will), I'm happy to spend $20 to support this work. One note - the billing plans…

For the sake of sustainability, I want to discourage people from using one-time payments. For the time being charge -> cancel manually is the preferred way to do this.

Thanks for your support!

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>* If we had syntax highlighting in the file browser, that would be a win over GitHub, which insists that there be "hundreds of GitHub repositories" before accepting a syntax highlighting pull request for a new language. I could imagine it would be reasonable to support "repository-local" highlighting configuration. We use pygments, so patches to pygments would make it to sr.ht's syntax highlighting. >* Transferring…

> Eventually users will be able to add custom base images, which will permit the use of Windows (if you can get an sshd running there, at least). msys2 has an sshd. I use it on a Windows VM runner with Gitlab CI. It's not easy to set up but it can be done.

Microsoft has ported OpenSSH, at least on Windows 10 you can install it as a Windows feature, or pull it from GitHub https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#79

Is this orthogonal approach to GitHub, etc ? On GitHub you navigate to project(repo), then drill down to sub section provides specific piece of functionality (repo, commits, issues, wiki..) Here you navigate to app then drill down to project..

According to comments elsewhere on this post, this functionality is in the works.
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