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Sourcehut?
by 0XAFFE 6y ago
Sourcehut?
- crispyporkbites 6y agoThe one true answer
- unixhero 6y agoYes, but why?
- chucky_z 6y agoBecause it’s cool! Also it’s extremely open source, has a cool tech blog, and feels like it has a lot of momentum
- tomcooks 6y agoFor starters, it's not owned by a gigagroup
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoPerhaps a relevant comparison here is Pinboard. It's a paid subscription website and has done very well as a one-man-army project. Its success hasn't compromised its virtues of being lightweight and no-nonsense (unlike Delicious). If SourceHut could do the same for Git that would be great.
- enriquto 6y ago> If SourceHut could do the same for Git that would be great. It already does. Other than some (minor) missing features that are in active development, what else do you need?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoIt's a 'public alpha'. Personally I won't be signing up until it's describing itself as stable.
- hoistbypetard 6y agoTheir description of "alpha" is more stable than many services that describe themselves as stable, IMO: https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/ https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/
- enriquto 6y agoYou can sign-in for free while it is alpha and try it. Everything works very well except the account data export that is not still enabled. I have found it very practical and fast, much better than the typical github+travis combination.
- Carpetsmoker 6y agoInstead it's owned by an abrasive difficult to deal with developer who will argue "you're just doing it wrong" with paying customers. Clearly things aren't exactly roses and sunshine here either.
- gspr 6y agoExample?
- Carpetsmoker 6y agoe.g. https://lobste.rs/s/j1gl4t/sourcehut_prohibits_repos_with_large https://lobste.rs/s/j1gl4t/sourcehut_prohibits_repos_with_la... Both the original story as well as the comments regarding Andrew's usage for Zig.
- gspr 6y agoThat doesn't sound abrasive at all to me. It's just a normal technical disagreement. What am I missing?
- hoistbypetard 6y agoIt doesn't (and didn't at the time) sound abrasive to me, either.
- Carpetsmoker 6y agoYou don't think it's strange for a service provider to tell people that "mercurial isn't suitable for this" (even though it clearly works, and has been working for many years) and "you're writing your program wrong"? It's fine to not support certain use cases because it's too much effort or otherwise too expensive. It's not fine to, as a service provider, tell people that their programs are (and I quote) "wrong". If you're okay with that then that's your choice, but for me it really turned me off sourcehut.
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- sammorrowdrums 6y ago"They violently break all the recent frontend best practices. Where is the React or Vie, SPA architecture, tons of JS? There should be a federal law prohibiting making fast and simple UIs so that nobody will have concerns that the UI frameworks war leads us to great future." - viach https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775549
- orf 6y agoHonestly the UI is confusing and pretty poor. Also looks terrible on Mobile.
- hoistbypetard 6y agoI don't have a problem using the UI on mobile. And it looks nice IMO. And the ability to create a repo on their site by just pushing to a remote with the right name[1] has really made it easier for me to use their service. What do you find confusing and poor about the UI? I find it straightforward and efficient. [1](https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/cool_sr_ht_feature/ https://geoff.tuxpup.com/posts/cool_sr_ht_feature/)
- orf 6y agoMaybe I was being too critical - it is actually quite nice on mobile. I do use the find-file feature on Github a lot, as well as the quick file editor. Both are missing here, but I kind of see that at least the file editor is not well suited to the projects ethos.
- antihero 6y agoYes but remember, hating on React developers is the what is cool at the moment, thus the project is cool.