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Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by timcobb »

jospeh554 wrote: post #663
timcobb wrote: post #661

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Github is Microsoft, who even cares? How can ppl be so caught up in a brand name? Microsoft doesn't care about you, why do you care about Microsoft? Things always change, just move on when the time is right.

And it's just a host of git, you can just jump platforms... This is like crying that your favourite IRC network goes, then you just jump onto OFTC

Totally. And a small correction I think to your analogy is:

It's like crying when your favorite IRC network gets acquired by a crazy person (eg. Freenode) and refusing to jump onto libera.chat. I get network effects make a scene, but still, come on, new Freenode is not Freenode, it's just a name. Time to move on!

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by ramon156 »

eiiot wrote: post #172

This seems like a great opportunity for new platforms who are rethinking the OSS space to finally gain the traction they need to be effective. For a collaborative platform, quantity is key, and I am hopeful that someone who is interested in advancing the software space will become the new go-to. This isn't to say that GitHub hasn't been innovating, but at least from my perspective, the way we've used git for the past…

Tried tangled, quite like the idea! The fact you can always switch to a self-hosted knot is nice.

I was looking to self-host forgejo but I didn't want to expose any SSH, and needing to be on a tailscale network just to develop also seemed flakey.

I'll stay on codeberg for now and check out tangled from time to time, because I think this is a good use of ATProto

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

pathartl wrote: post #331
SwellJoe wrote: post #197

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Not always, but it was so long ago that it became that, younger folks could be forgiven for thinking so.

Idk, I'm in my mid 30's and I've never had a moment where I've been glad to see something on SourceForge.

Yeah you're too young. You need to be in your 40s (or older) to have been around in the open source community when Sourceforge was good.

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by [deleted] »

raincole wrote: post #634

Not to defend Github, but I sometimes feel there are two Githubs that aren't related to each other. > This is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day Do people seriously experience outage every day? I really don't know... it always has been feeling like a once-per-six-month thing. Do people have extremely complex Actions that I can't fathom?

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Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by karel-3d »

sudb wrote: post #227
madamelic wrote: post #99

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At least it isn't Bitbucket. I think Atlassian and Microsoft are genuinely in a competition to see who can make worse software and still have customers.

At this point maybe even Azure DevOps is an improvement

I haven't used it in about 3 years; but 3 years ago it was not at all

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by yhager »

chrisweekly wrote: post #185
devin wrote: post #129

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If anyone reading this is curious of their own, you can go to https://api.github.com/users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE and fetch it. My ID is just over 10,000. Crazy to think of the journey that I've had in computing since I signed up for GitHub.

Thanks for the link. ID: 67,498 Created: 2009-03-26 17 years, a month and two days ago.

heh, beat you by three days, ID 65973, 2009-03-23 :)

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

zaphar wrote: post #179
atonse wrote: post #22

During one of the x threads where Mitchell was (legitimately) complaining about Github, there were a couple replies suggesting that GitHub should hire him to be their CEO. And I remember seeing that and thinking "huh... not at all a bad idea." There is a specific kind of leader that can turn such ships around, and they are strong in their convictions, and aren't just "managers", but visionaries coupled with strong ex…

Maybe it's time for fossil to get another look... It's effectively distributed code, wiki, and issues all using the same tool.

Every time Fossil comes up, people's big objection is that you can't squash commits. Personally, I'm fine with that - I tend to agree with Hipp that the repo history should not sacrifice truth for the sake of pettiness in the timeline. But a lot of people seem to disagree, which limits the audience for Fossil. I use Fossil for my own projects but I wouldn't expect it to become big like git is.
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