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Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

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Re: Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

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Post by comrade1234 »

Git is pretty simple to host yourself. For literally decades I've used git and gitolite to host git for me and a revolving team of developers.

But if you want it to be public though where anyone can access/fork it then you have to deal with "spam".

Re: Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

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Post by fhdkweig »

comrade1234 wrote: post #2

Git is pretty simple to host yourself. For literally decades I've used git and gitolite to host git for me and a revolving team of developers. But if you want it to be public though where anyone can access/fork it then you have to deal with "spam".

I'm not familiar with git, but can you post a read-only version publicly so others can still access all the commit history but not be subjected to pull requests?

Re: Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

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Post by ciwolex »

I think one important factor would be still being able to interact with a community of people who care for software and would like to put genuine thoughts. Whether it be for submitting bug reports, issues, PRs or security reports. Of course other platforms are not diverse as GitHub, it would be nice to see which other platforms are attracting such people. This in turn has a higher chance of interacting with such people.

Re: Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

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Post by JTrehan »

fhdkweig wrote: post #3
comrade1234 wrote: post #2

Git is pretty simple to host yourself. For literally decades I've used git and gitolite to host git for me and a revolving team of developers. But if you want it to be public though where anyone can access/fork it then you have to deal with "spam".

I'm not familiar with git, but can you post a read-only version publicly so others can still access all the commit history but not be subjected to pull requests?

If you have somewhere to host it you can go with https://forgejo.org/ and have control over everything.
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