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?
Bitbucket may have better styles, but its load times are atrocious.
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Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#32Am I the only one who reads that as "source chute"? Also - nice initiative, I guess, but I have to say their web UI seems to be stuck in the 1990s.
The goal is to be simple and easy to use. The UI should get out of your way ASAP - you're there to get things done, not to gawk at the pretty UI. As a bonus, it's very fast and small, easy on your web browser even on old computers or slow internet connections. And it's not spying on you!
That being said, I have been working on conservative improvements to make it a little bit more pleasing to the eye, without sacrificing the principles behind it. More color, for example, is not going to be added, or will be added cautiously, because color is used sparingly to attract your eye to the most common reason you would come to a page. Each element of the page should be intuitive and have purpose before it's pretty.
Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mercurial users can use their builtin Web UI unlike Git users
git has gitweb: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb But in both cases, the user has to have a server to put it on, making services like Sourcehut and Bitbucket (may it rest in peace) useful.
gitweb requires server setup, while Mercurial web ui can quickly start locally without any configuration and that was the one of mercurial selling point until github and other services arrives.
Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
git has gitweb: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb But in both cases, the user has to have a server to put it on, making services like Sourcehut and Bitbucket (may it rest in peace) useful.
gitweb requires server setup, while Mercurial web ui can quickly start locally without any configuration and that was the one of mercurial selling point until github and other services arrives.
`git instaweb` is sufficient to get a working gitweb stood up.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you make "sr.ht git services" the blue title of the repo "card" and "~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht" - the subtitle (with dimmed color)? This simple change will improve UI usability in 10x times.
Well, the former is the description and the latter is the name.
The former is a human-readable text which allow eye to easy understand and latter is a technical info which is not required to have space on the screen and makes UI "hard to use".
Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#36Am I the only one who reads that as "source chute"? Also - nice initiative, I guess, but I have to say their web UI seems to be stuck in the 1990s.
> their web UI seems to be stuck in the 1990s To some of us decidedly a feature, not a bug. And: > All features work without JavaScript My endless upvote.
I just went for a look because of your JS remark and holy moses that's a fast site.
I still sometimes forget how slow stuff is relative to what's possible, even though I frequent HN.
Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#37Am I the only one who reads that as "source chute"? Also - nice initiative, I guess, but I have to say their web UI seems to be stuck in the 1990s.
The goal is to be simple and easy to use. The UI should get out of your way ASAP - you're there to get things done, not to gawk at the pretty UI. As a bonus, it's very fast and small, easy on your web browser even on old computers or slow internet connections. And it's not spying on you! That being said, I have been working on conservative improvements to make it a little bit more pleasing to the eye, without sacrifi…
More power to you, I'm shifting today
Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The goal is to be simple and easy to use. The UI should get out of your way ASAP - you're there to get things done, not to gawk at the pretty UI. As a bonus, it's very fast and small, easy on your web browser even on old computers or slow internet connections. And it's not spying on you! That being said, I have been working on conservative improvements to make it a little bit more pleasing to the eye, without sacrifi…
More power to you, I'm shifting today
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Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#39When you register, you notice that:
> Notice: sr.ht is currently in alpha, and the quality of the service reflects that. As such, payment is currently optional, and only encouraged for users who want to support the ongoing development of the site.
Caveat emptor.
Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
#40How was this upvoted so often without a single comment?
Beyond what sourcehut is providing, I would also upvote because of Drew (Sir_Cmpwn). I don't know him personally, but based on blog posts, HN comments and interaction via email, he seems to be very helpful and polite, my general impression is that this isn't the norm in open source.