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Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#41

Post by embedding-shape »

LukaD wrote: post #39

I just tried out tangled for the first time and unfortunately it seems buggy beyond being actually usable. I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it. The login was quite painful as well as I needed several attempts to enter my atproto handle (copy-pasted every time, so no typo). But I'm glad more people are working on git hosting options.

> I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it.

I remember back in early GitHub days this used to happen too, as the repository was asynchronously created but the redirect was immediate, then after a few seconds you refreshed the page and it was there. At one point they added the interstitial that I think is still there, that basically does the "waiting then redirect" for you.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#42

Post by sc68cal »

I tried Tangled and tried to run my own Knot, the problem I had was I'd create a repository, have it get created correctly on my Knot, but then would never see any updates to the repo on Tangled itself.

The main issue is that even though I had the knot with IPv6 connectivity, it only really reliably worked once I enabled lots of IPv4 NAT'ing and also created a dummy A record for the Knot.

This is a known issue - https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/issues/494

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#43

Post by avsm »

benrutter wrote: post #29
nerdypepper wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

disclaimer: i maintain tangled, some reasons to try might be: - tangled federates: https://blog.tangled.org/federation - native stacked PRs: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking - tangled implements mitchell's vouch system: https://blog.tangled.org/vouching

> - tangled federates: https://blog.tangled.org/federation People have been talking about federation across forges for a couple of years and seems like its finally at least close to being a real thing!? That's absolutely amazing!!

yep, I host two separate Tangled knots; one for my personal use and another for work at the Cambridge Computer Science department. Having large git repos on a server near me is great, and because I can sync the bare git repos it’s easy to run a local forge as well.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#45

Post by nicce »

bpev wrote: post #9
arikrahman wrote: post #3

How does tangled compare with codeberg? Seem like a cool project, wonder how the migration story is.

I use both. Tangled is missing some important features (private repos, protected branches). The ui feels more comfy to me, though. And Codeberg is quite slow for me. Idk if I can give you toooo much about migration, since I haven't used any CICD kind of stuff; just having repos to push to is super simple if you use their hosted knots. Also not too complicated to host a knot yourself; I'm hosting my own knot, and I li…

Tangled is also VC funded, something to consider.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#46

Post by whywhywhywhy »

pbjerkeseth wrote: post #26

First hearing of tangled, tried signing up and this first time user experience needs to be tightened up. Currently unwilling to sign in because of the friction I ran into using a password manager. From what it looks like they: - ask you for an email - send you an email - ask you for a username - except you cant actually log in with this username directly - im being forced to learn some new social url protocol - why d…

Better than my experience with it, just says:

>Failed to complete sign up. Try again later.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#48

Post by gpm »

pbjerkeseth wrote: post #26

First hearing of tangled, tried signing up and this first time user experience needs to be tightened up. Currently unwilling to sign in because of the friction I ran into using a password manager. From what it looks like they: - ask you for an email - send you an email - ask you for a username - except you cant actually log in with this username directly - im being forced to learn some new social url protocol - why d…

Fwiw the sign up/in process for me was "click login, type in my existing blue sky handle, type in my password (into a bsky domain name login prompt), click authorize".

I expect that's the... more optimized flow at this point in this forge's life.

> - why does the auth flow pass me through a new ui/url that seems owned by the project but visually disconnected (eg, different branding/colors for the form)

Probably because of the above, identity isn't tightly associated with the app you're using here so they've stood up their own infra for it but probably not spent too much time on making it good.

> - except you cant actually log in with this username directly

Really? That's strange... I haven't made a native account... what do you need to login with then?

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#49

Post by LukaD »

embedding-shape wrote: post #41
LukaD wrote: post #39

I just tried out tangled for the first time and unfortunately it seems buggy beyond being actually usable. I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it. The login was quite painful as well as I needed several attempts to enter my atproto handle (copy-pasted every time, so no typo). But I'm glad more people are working on git hosting options.

> I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it. I remember back in early GitHub days this used to happen too, as the repository was asynchronously created but the redirect was immediate, then after a few seconds you refreshed the page and it was there. At one point they added the interstitial that I think is still there, that basically does the "waiting then redirect" for you.

Oh yes, seems like that's it. I can now view the repo. A bit annoying when creating a repo redirects you to a URL that will give you a 404 initially (and at least for minute or so, that's how long I tried).

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

#50

Post by sbuttgereit »

HeavyStorm wrote: post #44

What's tangled? Which Gleam?

I guess this is one of those cases where, "if you know, you know."

I'm not sure of the link on the post though... I didn't see anything at all that jumped out as pertinent to this "Tangled" thing. I get that many posts on HN just aren't meant for me... but this seems to take that to an extreme.

Edit: yes I see the URL is Tangled... But that is a very subtle cue that I didn't notice until the third time I clicked through to see if the landing page really said nothing about Tangled.

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