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   by htrap 3y ago

   Thanks for the feedback, we are currently working on a new landing page. The images that you mentioned were put there to represent the wide usage of Open Source code in all walks of life. Also I agree with the buzzwords, even though they ar
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   by htrap 3y ago

   Thank you for your feedback and addressing your concerns. It's through conversations like these that we can continue to refine our platform. > I have to disagree here. Accidental complexity in a system can have severe downstream imp
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   by htrap 3y ago

   > There's a lot of overhead introduced by adding a blockchain—extra development time, extra code to maintain, extra CPU work (even with PoS). In order to persuade a technical audience to use your tool, you have to explain what value
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   by htrap 3y ago

   I completely understand your points. Git is indeed an exceptional distributed version control system and has served projects like Linus and Bitcoin really well. However our platform isn't trying to solve a deficiency in git. Rather, it
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   by htrap 3y ago

   Thanks for bringing this to our notice. Will need to check this with our legal team. Meanwhile we have a registered trademark for Gitopia in multiple jurisdictions as well as classes.
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   by htrap 3y ago

   > First, why blockchain? I know it's a bit of a meme around here to be instantly critical of any blockchain project, but I genuinely am not sure what a blockchain provides here over git itself, which is already a distributed version
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   Show HN: Gitopia: Decentralized GitHub Alternative for Open Source Collaboration(gitopia.com)

   45 points by htrap 3y ago|21 comments
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   by htrap 6y ago

   Since data is stored permanently on Arweave, there's no way to remove it from the blockchain. However, you could force push your repo which would remove your concerned commit from Gitopia repository view.
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   by htrap 6y ago

   I feel that there is a real need for permanent Storage with respect to Open Source. Code breaks when old packages are unpublished or repositories deleted. Push once and fetch forever solves this. Also Centralized solutions are providing ope
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    by htrap 6y ago

    Considering the illegal content is added by someone who has access to the repository. The right way to address that would be via community voting, which then can decide to hide it from the platform since the data is permanent on Arweave. Th
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    by htrap 6y ago

    Thanks for flagging this. We'll look into it. Meanwhile you can try from a different browser.
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    by htrap 6y ago

    Link to git-remote-gitopia source hosted on Gitopia: https://gitopia.org/#/z_TqsbmVJOKzpuQH4YrYXv_Q0DrkwDwc0UqapR...
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    by htrap 6y ago

    We are building https://gitopia.org - Permanent Data Storage provided by Arweave - Works from within git with the help of git-remote-helper `npm install -g git-remote-gitopia` so no need to learn new tooling - Built-in incentivi
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    by htrap 6y ago

    Saw this coming. We are working on https://dgit.sh for the last couple of months. Dgit is a decentralized code collaboration platform where we harness the power of git for versioning and arweave blockchain for permanent data sto