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Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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That's... really rude. Sourcehut has been around for a while: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sourcehut&sort=byPopularity&pr...

Doesn't mean you're not fishing for users there.

Isn't literally everyone fishing for users? Relax dude. People need somewhere to go and maybe they'll find Sourcehut suitable to their needs. I don't know what your definition of spam is but this definitely doesn't qualify for my (unusually strict) definition of it.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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How was this upvoted so often without a single comment?

Bots? I have a hard time beleiving that a paid service has a silent fanbase. But maybe they do.

I am one. Happy paying user, upvoted sourcehut's posts because I like to support independent services, but rarely commented.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Am I the only one who can't find the source of this "open source software"? How they can beat Bitbucket while they hide the code under unusable UI?

> Where is the source?

The homepage links to https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht (EDIT: which is now also the URL in the blogpost with the link text "100% open source software")

There are also Hg repos at hg.sr.ht; idk how easy it is to find git.sr.ht from hg.sr.ht.

> how can they beat Bitbucket while the code is unusable

Well, for Hg users, it's not like there's going to be much of a choice in a year (given BB is sunsetting Hg support), right?

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Am I the only one who can't find the source of this "open source software"? How they can beat Bitbucket while they hide the code under unusable UI?

Clicking the text "100% open source software" brings you to the following list of git repos which collectively contain the source code for sourcehut:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Doesn't mean you're not fishing for users there.

Isn't literally everyone fishing for users? Relax dude. People need somewhere to go and maybe they'll find Sourcehut suitable to their needs. I don't know what your definition of spam is but this definitely doesn't qualify for my (unusually strict) definition of it.

Well, the page contains nothing but a tool to import data from a competitor in order to get users of the competitor to sign up for your service. That meets my definition of spam to a certain extend.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Am I the only one who can't find the source of this "open source software"? How they can beat Bitbucket while they hide the code under unusable UI?

> Where is the source? The homepage links to https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht (EDIT: which is now also the URL in the blogpost with the link text "100% open source software") There are also Hg repos at hg.sr.ht; idk how easy it is to find git.sr.ht from hg.sr.ht. > how can they beat Bitbucket while the code is unusable Well, for Hg users, it's not like there's going to be much of a choice in a year (given BB…

Mercurial users can use their builtin Web UI unlike Git users

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't literally everyone fishing for users? Relax dude. People need somewhere to go and maybe they'll find Sourcehut suitable to their needs. I don't know what your definition of spam is but this definitely doesn't qualify for my (unusually strict) definition of it.

Well, the page contains nothing but a tool to import data from a competitor in order to get users of the competitor to sign up for your service. That meets my definition of spam to a certain extend.

The competitor is leaving the market, which hardly makes them a competitor at all. Any users who don't want to be left out in the cold need tools like this.
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