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Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by viraptor »

fireattack wrote: post #53
thruflo22 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub is a “social coding” platform that provides collaboration features (access control, issues, etc) on top of Git. This is a social coding tool that provides collaboration features on top of Git. It provides a desktop app because it’s peer to peer. That’s an advantage over a web UI for developers looking to avoid a dependency on a centralised third party. You are free to continue to play in walled gardens but thi…

Well the disadvantage is it doesn't even have a Windows client.

This is a first announced beta release. It doesn't have a few planned features. I'm sure windows build will happen at some point too.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by enedil »

cloudhead wrote: post #16
dijit wrote: post #2

Not to be confused with Radicale; an Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server https://radicale.org/3.0.html

The shameless plug we all needed

Shameless plugs are when you talk about your product specifically, while this just mentioned some product of this name.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by tpoacher »

fireattack wrote: post #53
thruflo22 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub is a “social coding” platform that provides collaboration features (access control, issues, etc) on top of Git. This is a social coding tool that provides collaboration features on top of Git. It provides a desktop app because it’s peer to peer. That’s an advantage over a web UI for developers looking to avoid a dependency on a centralised third party. You are free to continue to play in walled gardens but thi…

Well the disadvantage is it doesn't even have a Windows client.

Surely that's an advantage. :p

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

viraptor wrote: post #58
throwaway_pdp09 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main site page is just awful. It's amateurish, image/animation heavy to no value, almost negligable information. They may have something good but the site's just obscuring it.

I think it does a good job listing project ideas / features / roadmap and is a pleasant step away from the bland corporate brands. Love the esthetic. You just can't satisfy everyone.

The front page alone is 9MB.

Edit: perhaps more importantly, I have to gain a feeling for the product, to work out whether it's worth the perhaps nontrivial time evaluating it.

If I'm presented with this what it indicates to me, rightly or not, is that the product is image-led, the project is perhaps childish if the website is (clips from ghost in the shell?), fails to understand technical load (the website's bloated, what does it say about technical competence of the company) and whatever.

I don't care about corporate blandness, I need solid info, directly in front of me, and not having my eyes pulled away by flicker.

I could be completely getting the value of this project wrong but first impressions suggest I may well be wasting my time with it.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by scoopertrooper »

cloudhead wrote: post #35
varbhat wrote: post #4

I don't understand how using Radicle will free my code as they say in the site. So,how is using Radicle better than: 1. main repo on https://github.com 2. mirror repo on https://repo.or.cz 3. mirror repo on https://codeberg.org 4. local backup on my device and hard-disk. peer-to-peer is beautiful concept but note that git is already distributed VCS. you can have many remotes and mirrors. Just that p2p is not necessar…

So when GitHub is down, how do users know to pull from your mirrors? How about push?

Notes in the readme? How long are you expecting one of the biggest websites in the world to be down?

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by dessant »

Awesome project, though the perpetuation of open source software needing to be free is regrettable.

> Software as it should be.

> Free forever

Mostly all popular projects need some form of funding, and setting the expectaction of a free lunch forever for new users is not healthy. Btw, do you remember who used the tagline "It's free and always will be"? It was Facebook.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by studius »

nikitaga wrote: post #38

What a nice funky design. That front page has a soul, unlike almost everything else I see nowadays.

the site design is cool. hosting it on GitHub is ironic, though. could it instead just be hosted via radicle? (mirrored to GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, SourceForge, Savannah, ...)

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by sdan »

It's weird to think P2P is becoming all the craze for "privacy" while it's the backbone of the internet: it is p2p. It's just nowadays its more of P2(big cloud servers)2p; which could be a good thing depending on who you ask and your usecases.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by xla »

dessant wrote: post #66

Awesome project, though the perpetuation of open source software needing to be free is regrettable. > Software as it should be. > Free forever Mostly all popular projects need some form of funding, and setting the expectaction of a free lunch forever for new users is not healthy. Btw, do you remember who used the tagline "It's free and always will be"? It was Facebook.

Important to note that "Free" here doesn't refer to "for free". You rpoint about funding of popular projects was at the heart of radicle from the beginning. We believe that FOSS as backbone of the digital infrastructure needs to be sustainable, which includes the resources/funds to maintain it and keep it free and open. If you wanna find out more about the philosophy we follow, here is the original research and premise: http://oscoin.io/
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