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Yeah, like how developers were en-masse ditching GitHub to go to GitLab when Microsoft acquired GitHub.
It's so weird the herd behavior of developers.
Statistically I would assume that if you select a bunch of people on a certain criterium, you're going to see similarities related to that criterium among that group.
I tried codeberg, used it a year, then early this year in all their wisdom codeberg decided to show adverserial random text instead of my repo, reporteldly to mess up llm training to user agents they weren't sure were human. Codeberg had one job, serve my repo, it didn't do that, when brought up, I was told it was a feature not a bug, they could maybe whitelist me but that wasn't my problem, it was that random people…
Is your complaint about Anubis? I see the "checking if you are human" kind of text too when going to codeberg, but it is usually only a second or two. It is because I run a bit of obfuscation and resistance to browser finger printing. But you find seeing the text for a couple of seconds too annoying to use codeberg? Maybe it is more than 2 seconds for you? Everyone has their views on what is acceptable in the world a…
If only we had research on the effect of a second or two's effect on user experience.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was on expensive endpoints like search or deep history dives, where it matters for server load. But it's every single page, out of some strange sense of righteousness.
It reminds me of the time where I deployed Gitea for self-hosting my git projects. In the end, nobody wanted to use it beyond myself. I would love to have a true federation protocol for Git, to decentralize the solution further.
I tried codeberg, used it a year, then early this year in all their wisdom codeberg decided to show adverserial random text instead of my repo, reporteldly to mess up llm training to user agents they weren't sure were human. Codeberg had one job, serve my repo, it didn't do that, when brought up, I was told it was a feature not a bug, they could maybe whitelist me but that wasn't my problem, it was that random people…
I tried codeberg, used it a year, then early this year in all their wisdom codeberg decided to show adverserial random text instead of my repo, reporteldly to mess up llm training to user agents they weren't sure were human. Codeberg had one job, serve my repo, it didn't do that, when brought up, I was told it was a feature not a bug, they could maybe whitelist me but that wasn't my problem, it was that random people…
Is your complaint about Anubis? I see the "checking if you are human" kind of text too when going to codeberg, but it is usually only a second or two. It is because I run a bit of obfuscation and resistance to browser finger printing. But you find seeing the text for a couple of seconds too annoying to use codeberg? Maybe it is more than 2 seconds for you? Everyone has their views on what is acceptable in the world a…
The problem is blocking or speed-bumping users in general, everyone else besides themselves.
They didn't put things on a public hosting site for them to be hidden or obfuscated or even to have a tiny friction inserted between a user and that user discovering their stuff, or following a link to something.
Saying "2 seconds" as though that makes it insignificant is completely missing the point. 0.2 seconds, if it's 0.2 more than some other path is the same as a total block. Having a link to something do anything at all other than instantly provide that thing is outrageous and unacceptable, if you care about the experience you want to present to your users or audience.
(Still, I'd say codeberg was at least among the best options if you want someone else to host it for you. The bad job of providing a bad experience for legit users while trying to block AI scrapers can be true at the same time as no one else is doing any better without some other worse strings attached like github.)
Is there a bsky or mastodon extension for serving git repos and commits? Would be interesting to see this.
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codeberg's one job gets interfered with by freeloaders hammering expensive views (like git blame) inconsiderately.
You’re so right. I have a public-facing Forgejo server. Before configuring Anubis, scrapers were sending it about 600K requests per day. Copying and pasting from my blog post about it: * For every Git commit, fetch the version of every file in the repository at that commit. * See git blame for every file at every commit. * Attempt to download the archive of each repo at every commit. * Run every possible pull request…
Or one someone with too much money and too little sense misplaced a decimal point in their ScraPy setup?
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codeberg's one job gets interfered with by freeloaders hammering expensive views (like git blame) inconsiderately.
You’re so right. I have a public-facing Forgejo server. Before configuring Anubis, scrapers were sending it about 600K requests per day. Copying and pasting from my blog post about it: * For every Git commit, fetch the version of every file in the repository at that commit. * See git blame for every file at every commit. * Attempt to download the archive of each repo at every commit. * Run every possible pull request…
Sentiment for/against GitHub aside... "Why X are doing Y" articles like these pretend that the premise of "X are doing Y" is true, conveniently skipping to the "Why" before proving that the premise is even accurate in any meaningful way. This is why I never buy headlines that start out with "Why". > developers are ditching Proceeds to list but a handful of remotely meaningful repos against the hundreds of thousands o…
Genuinely curious here for someone who has tried self hosting git and has found it a pita to maintain...i want to know what is it that devs are flocking to other platforms and how are we sure that they won't pull all the red card signals that github is said to pull off.
Forgejo is fairly simple to run – way lighter and simpler than GitLab even. (GitLab is quite okay, too!) If you want a hosted service, go for Codeberg. It’s run by a German non-profit (so it’ll be hard to bite and switch OpenAI-style). Only free/open source projects are accepted, though.