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How and why is literally everything peer to peer in the tech community also somehow connected to ethereum?
In this particular case Radicle came out of OScoin (or is the new incarnation of it?) and was funded by BlueYard.
What a nice funky design. That front page has a soul, unlike almost everything else I see nowadays.
It's fun to see how different our opinions can be about this kind of things, I really didn't expect it in this case but here we go :)
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.
I think it is Free as in Freedom.
How and why is literally everything peer to peer in the tech community also somehow connected to ethereum?
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.
I think it is Free as in Freedom.
What a nice funky design. That front page has a soul, unlike almost everything else I see nowadays.
I came here to say just the opposite. The first thing I did when seeing the frontpage was to leave. It just felt overcrowded, unreadable and aggressive to me. It's fun to see how different our opinions can be about this kind of things, I really didn't expect it in this case but here we go :)
i think this is technically interesting, but i'm curious in practice what it gives project maintainers over hosting their own gitlab instance or similar...
I've got a number of tiny projects. Realistically if they're not hosted on GitHub, they won't get contributions. "Setup another login on my gitlab instance" would close to ensure nobody collaborates on it. This allows me to both disconnect them from a centralised service and remove the "you need a separate identity" step.
Anyone who really wants to contribute to the project (and scratch their itch) will not have a problem with entering a username, password, and perhaps use a validation link from an e-mail. It might discourage people with just fleeting interest.
And as a hypothetical FOSS project maintainer, I know I'd rather have one of the first kind of contributor than ten of the second kind. Especially if the alternative is to be beholden to the likes of Microsoft.
Of course, the best solution would be something like ForgeFed, but I can't see that meaningfully taking off (there's no way Github will ever adopt it). I'd love to be wrong, though.
Is this based on Matrix?
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I've got a number of tiny projects. Realistically if they're not hosted on GitHub, they won't get contributions. "Setup another login on my gitlab instance" would close to ensure nobody collaborates on it. This allows me to both disconnect them from a centralised service and remove the "you need a separate identity" step.
Oh come on. It's not like making an account is overly difficult or demanding. You are not required to send two forms of ID or a blood sample by mail. Anyone who really wants to contribute to the project (and scratch their itch) will not have a problem with entering a username, password, and perhaps use a validation link from an e-mail. It might discourage people with just fleeting interest. And as a hypothetical FOSS…
And I understand it - If I have a one line fix but the relevant system requires a new account, I don't bother. If it's a significant fix, but the project requires extra signed document (CLA?), they're getting a description in an issue instead.
There's a reason for a recent trend where new services let you jump right in and start using them. Then require amount creation only when you do something significant.
And for a small project that potential drive-by fix is valuable. It's not like I get to throw away most people to select the best ones. I get one potential fix a year - either it's a seamless experience or they disappear.