baepaul

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by baepaul 3mo ago
fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future. but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issu
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by baepaul 3mo ago
oh wow i have not thought about terminal browsers in a while (i used to use one back in the day in college haha). yeah, that admittedly is not priority, but thanks for taking the time to check it out.
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by baepaul 3mo ago
the hn hug is real indeed, hopefully this link is fine. a bit wordy, but goes into quite a lot of the thinking that went into the design: https://gitdot.io/designs/gitdot-designed-by-developers
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by baepaul 3mo ago
it is based off a minimum pixel as of now, apologies. the overall reason why we didn't ship a mobile site is that code is inherently very hard to read on mobile and i think to do that properly, you have to design explicitly for it. (an
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you both for chiming in. i will be honest and say that we didn't do our due diligence here (we simply assumed that it would be okay to do so, given the existence of GitHub, GitLab, GitKraken, GitButler, and so forth). it does loo
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you! i'm not aware of the old macOS inspector pattern, but this sounds super interesting and i agree with the critique of inconsistency in github's behavior. this reminds me a tad of superhuman's right panel too which a
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by baepaul 3mo ago
yeah the site isn't perfect. my fixation here is to make everything load instant, but that is dependent on server latencies, which right now is admittedly slow as we only have one server in the US. but thank you for giving it a shot no
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you mbreese, i know folks can be mean and i also recognize where they're coming from (we are certainly far from perfect), but this comment is nice to read. thank you for the empathy.
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by baepaul 3mo ago
yeah this is because we're currently (very temporarily) hosting things in NFS and git stat operations are very slow since they assume a fast file FS. we'll fix that in a few. and yeahhhh, i do try to be very non-marketing in all t
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you both for asking. i think the honest answer here is autonomy. the freedom to choose our own tech stack, our own product priorities, and our own design. i'll also admit that i don't know forgejo's own priorities as we
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by baepaul 3mo ago
we are well aware and duly noted. thank you for the feedback
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by baepaul 3mo ago
yeah this has been pointed out a few times, will revise the copytext later but will keep it up for the duration of the post. hope our sentiment is clearer in the comments that i've made, i think i've made the mistake of phrasing h
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by baepaul 3mo ago
this hn thread is interesting as it feels like i'm getting to revisit a lot of decisions i've made in the design haha. i debated this for a while too, some of my thinking for how it is is that i wanted the focus of a repository pa
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you both for the feedback, i'm revisiting it now and i do see what the both of you are illustrating. i think i will get rid of the change on hover, it is a distraction and perhaps was just my ambition to show people how fast we l
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you for the feedback, yeah i've been going and trimming a few places where i think my own tendencies have gone a bit too far. i will also say on accessibility, i recognize the site is a bit too small font in general — and will fi
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by baepaul 3mo ago
forgejo is a pretty great piece of software. a lot of this we've really come to know as we dug into both it, gittea, gitlab, and all of their internals. i think the short answer as to a differentiator is design. our goal's to just
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you kiro! (i feel you may be slightly miffed about the AWS IDE taking your name haha) i replied in a separate comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452052 but to reiterate: 1) no AI copilot and 2) no trainin
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by baepaul 3mo ago
thank you! of all things in this launch, i was the most anxious about the design as it is admittedly the most different. glad to hear the positive feedback :)
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by baepaul 3mo ago
yeah thanks for digging in, this was a bit ambiguous. so take this to mean - 1) no AI copilot in the app and 2) no training on your data nor selling of it. our take on AI is that we should focus on building tools that help address its limit
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by baepaul 3mo ago
hrm. so i guess if the question is why not just make a software forge that is _only_ based in the CLI, the answer i think is convenience. it's very convenient to be sent a link (or find it on hacker news) and to be able to click around
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Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust(gitdot.io)
334 points by baepaul 3mo ago|303 comments
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by baepaul 1y ago
this is super super cool - awesome to see something technically hard and novel. congrats on the launch!