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Re: GitHub is sinking

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Post by ternaryoperator »

coolgoose wrote: post #17

So, what's the actual real alternative ? The one that also supports open source projects ? Ironically gitlab is costlier than github, and not without their faults, but that's "maybe" the only other alternative here, anything else ?

Looking at the suggestions for self-hosting here and in other threads, I wonder why self-hosting Fossil is not more widely done. From the comments I’ve seen from its users, it seems to work quite well.

Re: GitHub is sinking

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

Dashboard events are not user experiences. GitHub is sinking in the same fashion as NYC or LA population is declining. Put some data behind the argument and it falls apart.

Re: GitHub is sinking

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Post by IshKebab »

lawn wrote: post #151
IshKebab wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many PRs from other people have you received on your self-hosted Forgejo instance?

None and I don't want to. If I did I would host it on a VPS and make it public.

Why bother with a forge at all if you don't want to collaborate with other people?

Re: GitHub is sinking

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Post by lawn »

IshKebab wrote: post #173
lawn wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None and I don't want to. If I did I would host it on a VPS and make it public.

Why bother with a forge at all if you don't want to collaborate with other people?

Because it has CI and builds images in a nice and easy manner.

Re: GitHub is sinking

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Post by breakingcups »

egwor wrote: post #49
tbolt wrote: post #3

“GitLab - enterprise grade, meaning it’s bloated and confusing but it’ll impress your boss. This could be the choice if you need multiple meetings to make the choice.“ lol!

We use gitlab at work, and I have to say that it is disappointing. The UI is so complicated to do the simplest things (e.g. to approve a MR you need to click a button that is actually a menu; the diffs are difficult to read; the 'To-do list' includes MRs that were already merged (how is that actionable?)) and it seems that they're struggling to turn around improvements quickly. The issue around the 'To-do list' inclu…

We semi-recently had Gitlab reps stop by at work to demo their new AI features (we're already running Gitlab Enterprise). It was a strong signal that we should get off the train before the next major version. None of the features seemed very thought out and to top it all off, there was an outage while they were demo-ing it, leading to broken pages and no LLM responses.

Re: GitHub is sinking

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Post by exe34 »

icase wrote: post #170
exe34 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke?

is this a serious question

No, it was rhetorical. I remember downloading software from sourceforge, distro servers and getting drivers from random people's websites that needed to be compiled.
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