Curious to hear: does GitHub not have any switching costs to leave? Or is it the broader Microsoft ecosystem? Or a mix of both?
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
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#342Curious to hear: does GitHub not have any switching costs to leave? Or is it the broader Microsoft ecosystem? Or a mix of both?
GitHub Actions, GitHub Auth, any hard coded GitHub URLs you use, GitHub's nice REST API.
They do have a bunch of value adds, it just depends on which you use
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I really liked bitbucket, it's my favorite git management system I've used for real production work and it allows for self hosting. Self hosting is also way faster than gitlab from what I remember
Bitbucket was the perfect alternative. I used it back in the day when they were the only ones who offered free private repos. Ahead of their time. GH beat them on UI/UX and the PR workflow I think. Really nothing more than having a better ~$120k Product Designer working there. Kinda funny what actually makes people stick with 1 choice over another. Very often it’s just having better UI/UX, or offering something usefu…
It’s interesting how under the radar Bitbucket is these days.
I use it at work alongside GitHub (patchwork of merged companies).
There are random little things I like about it better than GitHub, especially in an enterprise setting.
And it has never gone down in my entire tenure at this company, while GitHub is like a weekly outage nightmare these days.
Atlassian is doing a whole lot of strange and desperate stuff lately including some pretty insane UI changes in Jira and their other products, but Bitbucket seems like it’s been neglected the exact right amount for it to be a pretty decent choice.
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#345To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: we did it for 6+ years in my company, and it's not always a smooth sailing. We had our own runners and we made it auto-upgrade across docker images daily before business start. It mostly worked really well, except those few times were a Docker upgrade had to be rolled back, or that one time the bundled pg_shared_buffers was set at 1MB by default, making schema upgrades im…
Never forget the sudden GitLab price-hike and flavor feature changes just a few years ago. I was literally about to go from free to paid, when the pricing doubled nearly overnight. I left for Gitea. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144974
Have you looked at migrating to Forgejo? It’s a fork of Gitea though I think it has diverged significantly since the fork.
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#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never forget the sudden GitLab price-hike and flavor feature changes just a few years ago. I was literally about to go from free to paid, when the pricing doubled nearly overnight. I left for Gitea. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144974
Have you looked at migrating to Forgejo? It’s a fork of Gitea though I think it has diverged significantly since the fork.
I migrated my Gitea instance to Forgejo, it was pretty painless
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
#347Curious to hear: does GitHub not have any switching costs to leave? Or is it the broader Microsoft ecosystem? Or a mix of both?
GitHub Actions, GitHub Auth, any hard coded GitHub URLs you use, GitHub's nice REST API. They do have a bunch of value adds, it just depends on which you use
right so basically moving upmarket, upselling around a core idea.
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#349For SaaS forges there's also upd.dev launched recently.
For self-hosted forges: forgejo is great but also cgit is pretty good for exporting repos.
With the recent GitHub fiasco I've split my repos across multiple forges. Git was always supposed to be decentralised so why store everything in one place?
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
#350Curious to hear: does GitHub not have any switching costs to leave? Or is it the broader Microsoft ecosystem? Or a mix of both?
GitHub Actions, GitHub Auth, any hard coded GitHub URLs you use, GitHub's nice REST API. They do have a bunch of value adds, it just depends on which you use
gitea/forgejo both do an 80% job of covering these needs, ime. they have mostly-GH-compatible APIs.