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Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

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Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#132

Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere, but I haven't found it yet. One of the things that I do like about GitHub is actually the community/social aspect. For example, I follow projects I am interested in, and I can see notifications from all of them on one page--without filling up my email inbox. I also follow users who have similar interests, and I often discover new projects when I see in my feed (which I read vi…

Thanks for your feedback and questions! >One of the things that I do like about GitHub is actually the community/social aspect. For example, I follow projects I am interested in, and I can see notifications from all of them on one page--without filling up my email inbox. I also follow users who have similar interests, and I often discover new projects when I see in my feed (which I read via RSS) that they've starred…

Hi, and congratulations, it looks awesome and has that old school unix feel I like, so you have a subscriber here.

Regarding the social/professional divide, a way to follow releases/security patches/API breakages on the projects I follow might make me more productive. I don't care about who stars who, but a way to link projects brings something.

Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve CI/CD and try to explain breakage or trigger new builds could be very useful.

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#133

You mention: > lists.sr.ht finally modernizes mailing lists What's new that lists.sr.ht brings to the table? I only had a quick browse of https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev , but as far as I could tell it looked like a pretty normal list of topic lines (like a typical web forum), and the e-mail conversations themselves are just the messages concatenated into one long page (e.g. https://lists.sr.ht/~emersion/mrsh…

"Looking like a typical web forum" is a huge improvement compared to what e.g. GNU Mailman offers.

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your feedback and questions! >One of the things that I do like about GitHub is actually the community/social aspect. For example, I follow projects I am interested in, and I can see notifications from all of them on one page--without filling up my email inbox. I also follow users who have similar interests, and I often discover new projects when I see in my feed (which I read via RSS) that they've starred…

Hi, and congratulations, it looks awesome and has that old school unix feel I like, so you have a subscriber here. Regarding the social/professional divide, a way to follow releases/security patches/API breakages on the projects I follow might make me more productive. I don't care about who stars who, but a way to link projects brings something. Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve C…

I recommend setting up a mailing list, project-announce or project-security, on lists.sr.ht for that purpose.

>Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve CI/CD and try to explain breakage or trigger new builds could be very useful.

This should be quite possible, perhaps even automatable through dispatch.sr.ht.

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, and congratulations, it looks awesome and has that old school unix feel I like, so you have a subscriber here. Regarding the social/professional divide, a way to follow releases/security patches/API breakages on the projects I follow might make me more productive. I don't care about who stars who, but a way to link projects brings something. Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve C…

I recommend setting up a mailing list, project-announce or project-security, on lists.sr.ht for that purpose. >Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve CI/CD and try to explain breakage or trigger new builds could be very useful. This should be quite possible, perhaps even automatable through dispatch.sr.ht.

> I recommend setting up a mailing list, project-announce or project-security, on lists.sr.ht for that purpose.

Indeed looks like it covers my needs. Thanks!

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#136

This is really exciting! I particularly like the lightness of the web-pages and the non-necessity of javascript. The support for the BSDs in the build system (FreeBSD at the moment, OpenBSD and NetBSD planned[0]) is also nice — as a Linux person I've far too often ignored the other Unixes and POSIX / general Unix compatibility. I hate being THAT guy, but would you consider trying[1] to re-license the AGPL-3.0 bits to…

> I trust the FSF not to do something sufficiently crazy

Personally, I don't trust this at all, and would recommend against the "or later" that yields future licensing decisions to the Richard Stallman and that FSF.

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#137
My feedback:

- It's left aligned, which makes it harder to use on an ultrawide, with the content in the first 1/3 of the page. Having a max-width on the main container and center aligning it would be great

- Emails are GPG signed! Even if the usefulness is small, it's a awesome feature

- Pricing seems good, but I would charge more. 3$, 8$, 15$, if following the pricing scheme you have. I know I'd be happy to pay for 15$/m for a useful service. You could also make it "pay however much you want", so it's flexible if people want to pay 5$ or 50$, and it calculate with the tiers (if over X$, use plan Y)

- It feels very responsive. Great job on having the site being very light so far

- Maybe having something like Turbolinks could be pretty cool. SPA are great because they feel instant, and with a few lines of optional JavaScript you could provide an experience which is SPA-like since the server-side rendering is so quick

- The UI looks clean and minimalistic, which is great. Featureful isn't a bad thing either if done right. I think you're on the right path though

Overall, this seems like a great project. I haven't tried the builds system yet, but I definitely will. Keep up the great work Drew!

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#138

This is really exciting! I particularly like the lightness of the web-pages and the non-necessity of javascript. The support for the BSDs in the build system (FreeBSD at the moment, OpenBSD and NetBSD planned[0]) is also nice — as a Linux person I've far too often ignored the other Unixes and POSIX / general Unix compatibility. I hate being THAT guy, but would you consider trying[1] to re-license the AGPL-3.0 bits to…

> I trust the FSF not to do something sufficiently crazy Personally, I don't trust this at all, and would recommend against the "or later" that yields future licensing decisions to the Richard Stallman and that FSF.

Can you elaborate on your reasoning for that?

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I trust the FSF not to do something sufficiently crazy Personally, I don't trust this at all, and would recommend against the "or later" that yields future licensing decisions to the Richard Stallman and that FSF.

Can you elaborate on your reasoning for that?

not speaking for OP, but the significant changes between GPL v2 and GPL v3 would make me absolutely paranoid, and represent a good example. A "v2-and-later" would have subjected people to licensing changes they absolutely don't want.

Re: Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

#140

My feedback: - It's left aligned, which makes it harder to use on an ultrawide, with the content in the first 1/3 of the page. Having a max-width on the main container and center aligning it would be great - Emails are GPG signed! Even if the usefulness is small, it's a awesome feature - Pricing seems good, but I would charge more. 3$, 8$, 15$, if following the pricing scheme you have. I know I'd be happy to pay for…

Thank you for your feedback!

>It's left aligned, which makes it harder to use on an ultrawide, with the content in the first 1/3 of the page. Having a max-width on the main container and center aligning it would be great

https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht/112

>Emails are GPG signed! Even if the usefulness is small, it's a awesome feature

Encrypted, too, if you add your PGP key to meta.sr.ht.

>Pricing seems good, but I would charge more. 3$, 8$, 15$, if following the pricing scheme you have. I know I'd be happy to pay for 15$/m for a useful service. You could also make it "pay however much you want", so it's flexible if people want to pay 5$ or 50$, and it calculate with the tiers (if over X$, use plan Y)

I may adjust the pricing later, but I want to see how this works out. If you're interested in going above and beyond, I accept donations here:

https://drewdevault.com/donate

Thanks >Maybe having something like Turbolinks could be pretty cool. SPA are great because they feel instant, and with a few lines of optional JavaScript you could provide an experience which is SPA-like since the server-side rendering is so quick

Not interested in this for the time being, it's pretty fast without.

Thanks so much for your support!

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