Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

My guess would be because HN likes sourcehut's open source approach (I still read it as 'Sir Hat') since its announcement on here. There are some projects that HN as a community tends to like and upvote just for visibility without feeling the need to comment on it.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by arghwhat » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 9:42 AM UTC

zaarn wrote: post #4

This looks suspiciously like a spam campaign to fish for users desperate enough to go anywhere but bitbucket.

BitBucket is discontinuing Mercurial, forcing users thereof to jump ship. Sourcehut is just doing a bit of marketing around their continued support for those needing new hosting.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by rightbyte » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 9:44 AM UTC

nik736 wrote: post #3

How was this upvoted so often without a single comment?

Bots? I have a hard time beleiving that a paid service has a silent fanbase. But maybe they do.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by ddevault » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 9:44 AM UTC

zaarn wrote: post #4

This looks suspiciously like a spam campaign to fish for users desperate enough to go anywhere but bitbucket.

That's... really rude. Sourcehut has been around for a while:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sourcehut&sort=byPopularity&pr...

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by zaarn » Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 9:48 AM UTC

ddevault wrote: post #9

zaarn wrote: post #4

This looks suspiciously like a spam campaign to fish for users desperate enough to go anywhere but bitbucket.

That's... really rude. Sourcehut has been around for a while: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sourcehut&sort=byPopularity&pr...

Doesn't mean you're not fishing for users there.