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Re: Before GitHub

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post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This appears to be down.

It worked on ipv6 only for like a year, it seemed to be back this last month but it seems to be back down right now probably because of this whole github ragequit happening.

I'm just seeing these two replies today, but it appears to be back up. Timestamp: ca. 2026-05-03 14:19 UTC

Re: Before GitHub

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post #139

My first was this monster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_SourceSafe

I remember that. I've been writing code since the 70's, and have lost count of the number of source code management systems I have been forced to learn. Early on they were over engineered, and a pain in the ass to learn. Then they'd go "out of fashion" and the next pain-in-the-ass over engineered nonsense was forced and learned. I resisted git FOR FUCKING EVER because i was so tired of relearning how to do the same f…

No, Git is alive and well. Git is under active development and continual iterative improvement.

Github might be on the decline, but git != github

Re: Before GitHub

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post #105
post #102

> Regardless of whether GitHub is here to stay or projects find new homes, what I would like to see is some public, boring, well-funded archive for Open Source software. Something with the power of an endowment or public funding to keep it afloat. Something whose job is not to win the developer productivity market but just to make sure that the most important things we create do not disappear. There is already such a…

The top sponsors are quite telling: US tech companies and hyperscalers, Abu Dhabi, French Government and some french universities.

It was started by some French folks from Debian, so the latter is logical, and the former presumably because tech companies use their marketing budgets to sprinkle a few sponsorship dollars here and there.

Re: Before GitHub

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> I definitely cringed when Zig moved to Codeberg! If anything Codeberg’s legal structure (being a non-profit) and vision makes it a lot more aligned with the objectives of free and open source projects than GitHub in the long run (which has always been the case but it’s just abundantly clearer today). I think “for-profit corporations providing high quality public services for free” was a zero interest-rate phenomeno…

Codeberg's achilles heel for me is not supporting custom domains for repos.

For Codeberg Pages you mean?
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