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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by ericbarrett »

esperent wrote: post #37

Opening this site I get "Oh Noes! Invalid Response" with an anime girl. Tried refreshing, opening in a private windows, same thing. EDIT: tried it again and got to "Making sure you're not a bot" with the same cringey anime girl, then the site loaded without CSS. Tried one more time, finally it loaded. EDIT 2: clicked on a link and I'm back to "Oh Noes!..." .

That is Anubis trying to get your browser to do proof of work: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by monster_truck »

mappu wrote: post #23
bhaney wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to Forgejo[1], Gitea underwent a secret hostile takeover by a for-profit company and has been moving from free software to "open core" bullshit. The reason that I, and I assume a lot of other people, made an effort to switch from Github to Gogs/Gitea was to evade the for-profit corpo nonfree crap. The more I'm looking into it, the more it looks like the real development is happening on Forgejo too. [1] http…

A more charitable framing of the situation is: the for-profit company is because people always complained about Gitea "why is it developed on GitHub, not your own hosting" but that means money has to be involved in the cloud hosting project; it is just the same Gitea core developers it has always been, not a takeover. The "open core" (Gitea Enterprise) is not Gitea, it is a downstream fork by CommitGo, who you can pa…

This sounds like a lot of work for no benefit

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by cornstalks »

prabinlamsal19 wrote: post #41
xeonmc wrote: post #34

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Oh boy do I have some recent news for you…

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The FFmpeg culture is… very different. It’s hard to explain. But one hard requirement they had is that they did not want to give someone else control over their infrastructure. And it had to be open source. Only self hosting options were considered.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by ashton314 »

prabinlamsal19 wrote: post #41
xeonmc wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy do I have some recent news for you…

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Lemme guess: you might think that everyone should just write their blogs on Substack, right?

The web thrives on diversity. More forges is good.

Furthermore, GitHub has been making moves that understandably worry some and so it’s great that there are some excellent alternatives.

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