This is excellent. I've started moving projects over, and I'm looking forward to shifting from fosspay donations to actually paying directly for this. Excelsior!
Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
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#112I still prefer the GitLab UI for viewing project files, cgit style seems a bit "old-fashioned" to me.
Other then that I'm quite interested how this is going to look long term.
Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
#113This is excellent. I've started moving projects over, and I'm looking forward to shifting from fosspay donations to actually paying directly for this. Excelsior!
Thank you!
Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
#114One of the coolest projects I've seen in a while! Really excited to see where this goes.
Some quick feedback: viewing messages on lists.sr.ht on mobile gives the " This might be intentional (wrapping can wreck formatting/alignment) but it might be worth wrapping for it to be less painful to read from a mobile browser. block experience" of moving a horizontal a scroller for every line.
Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
#115This is really exciting! I particularly like the lightness of the web-pages and the non-necessity of javascript. The support for the BSDs in the build system (FreeBSD at the moment, OpenBSD and NetBSD planned[0]) is also nice — as a Linux person I've far too often ignored the other Unixes and POSIX / general Unix compatibility.
I hate being THAT guy, but would you consider trying[1] to re-license the AGPL-3.0 bits to AGPL-3.0-or-later, unless sticking with just v3 was deliberate (in which case fair enough)? My rationale:
i) License-incompatibility is a curse that fragments the copyleft world.
ii) Worrying about AGPL-3.0-only being incompatible with AGPL-4.0, in ten years time, if/when the latter comes out, will be too late, as (hopefully) sr.ht will have had hundreds or thousands of contributors, many uncontactable, by then.
iii) Having AGPL-3.0-or-later instead of just AGPL-3.0 is unlikely to put off any contributors.
iv) (This is subjective and might not hold for you:) I trust the FSF not to do something sufficiently crazy with its next iteration of licenses (if such exist), that I would prefer my code not to be compatible with such licenses.
[0] https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-announce/%3C201808022145...
[1] This obviously also depends on the other contributors, so you might not want to bother with the effort.
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#116Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
#117One of the coolest projects I've seen in a while! Really excited to see where this goes. Some quick feedback: viewing messages on lists.sr.ht on mobile gives the " block experience" of moving a horizontal a scroller for every line. This might be intentional (wrapping can wreck formatting/alignment) but it might be worth wrapping for it to be less painful to read from a mobile browser.
Yeah, this is deliberate. I don't want to wreck the formatting of anyone's emails. That being said, there are solutions to this... but they're a bit obscure and will require some effort.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm glad that you like it! Please don't hesitate to send me feedback.
I like look of it too, but I'm not sure how to pronounce the name. "Shirt"? "Shart"?
As mentioned in the article, I pronounce it "sir hat", but you can pronounce it any way you like.
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#119It looks great and the minimalistic UI is a welcome breath :)
Could you share any details on how you implemented the build system? Are you running of different public cloud providers or are you using something different? Your announcement speaks about KVM so it looks like you implemented something yourself but I guess the cost and performance could easily become difficult to manage, so I'm curious how do you back this system :)
Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
#120It looks great and the minimalistic UI is a welcome breath :) Could you share any details on how you implemented the build system? Are you running of different public cloud providers or are you using something different? Your announcement speaks about KVM so it looks like you implemented something yourself but I guess the cost and performance could easily become difficult to manage, so I'm curious how do you back thi…
I built it all from scratch, and I host it on dedicated machines colocated in Philadelphia, with backup facilities in SF. It's pricy for the current scale, but as it scales will become very price effective.