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Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by miki123211 »

PSA: Codeberg currently does not implement accessible account registration. It is impossible for screen reader users to make a Codeberg account due to the image-only captcha. There's a manual fallback path, but no idea how long that takes. I've been forced to use the Wikimedia one, and that was about 3 months. This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're willing to fix.

If you didn't know what Codeberg's political stance really is and how they treat the inconvenient part of their userbase... I guess now you know.

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by quirino »

jeffbee wrote: post #52
quirino wrote: post #35

> As a bonus, we look forward to fewer violations (exhibit A, B, C) of our strict no LLM / no AI policy, Hilarious how the offender on "exhibit A" [1] is the same one from the other post that made the frontpage a couple of days ago [2]. [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/25974 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039274

I agree that's a funny coincidence. But, what about the change it wanted to commit? It is at least slightly interesting. It is doubly interesting that changing line 638 neither breaks nor fixes any test.

There's a tweet with a Claude screenshot with a bit more context (linked on the PR).

I don't know enough about the project to know if it makes any sense, but the Zig contributor seemed confused (at least about the title).

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by [deleted] »

miki123211 wrote: post #61

PSA: Codeberg currently does not implement accessible account registration. It is impossible for screen reader users to make a Codeberg account due to the image-only captcha. There's a manual fallback path, but no idea how long that takes. I've been forced to use the Wikimedia one, and that was about 3 months. This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're willing to fix. If yo…

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Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by technion »

SoKamil wrote: post #9

> As a bonus, we look forward to fewer violations (exhibit A, B, C) of our strict no LLM / no AI policy, which I believe are at least in part due to GitHub aggressively pushing the “file an issue with Copilot” feature in everyone’s face. Also, the big part of that issue is people are incentivized to make their GitHub profile look good to have a higher chance of getting hired. Any non-mainstream platform is not as com…

Not long back we were all urged to take CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md seriously. I've arrived at a place where the next thing I open source will include such a file which discusses not sending slop to the repository.

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by echelon »

muratsu wrote: post #51

> Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE, it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. This says more about the author than anything else.

The author of the article is the creator of the Zig language.

This is par for the course for him. He's quite a bit like Linus [1].

He needs to start following his own advice [2].

[1] https://mastodon.social/@andrewrk/112362751644363647

[2] https://andrewkelley.me/post/open-letter-everyone-butted-hea...

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by mlugg »

miki123211 wrote: post #61

PSA: Codeberg currently does not implement accessible account registration. It is impossible for screen reader users to make a Codeberg account due to the image-only captcha. There's a manual fallback path, but no idea how long that takes. I've been forced to use the Wikimedia one, and that was about 3 months. This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're willing to fix. If yo…

> This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're willing to fix.

On the exact page you're on is a link to an issue [0] acknowledging that the CAPTCHA is inaccessible and expressing that they plan to drop it (albeit with no concrete time-frame). I don't at all understand your argument that Codeberg must be slow at replying to emails (the "manual fallback path") because Wikimedia are; these are two completely unrelated entities and I don't see why you would make inferences about one from the other.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/1797

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by mlugg »

newcodebergfan wrote: post #49

Damn - Codeberg is snappy! It's as fast as Github used to be 10 years ago. Server rendered pages. No AJAX-style slow updates. Love it.

This was the very first thing I noticed when we (the Zig team) started seriously trialing Codeberg. Honestly, the transition was worth it just for the ability to navigate the website without a 3-5 second wait every time I click a link.

Re: Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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Post by drannex »

muratsu wrote: post #51

> Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE, it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. This says more about the author than anything else.

That they don't support a nationalistic paramilitary organization that requires its members to be masked and never known by the public so they cant be held accountable? A nationalized KKK is not something to ever support.
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