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Comment by hugs

8 days ago

Bets on where everything/everyone goes next? Will it be like the transition from SourceForge to GitHub, where the center of gravity moves from one big place to another big place? Or more like Twitter, where factions split off to several smaller places?

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o_m  8 days ago

Personally I doubt we will see a huge centralized place like GitHub again. Trust in American companies, and big companies in general has been eroded. I think it would be for the better if it split off, and hopefully more devs decide to self host with tools like Forgejo.

  • DaSHacka  7 days ago

    > Personally I doubt we will see a huge centralized place like GitHub again.

    I can almost guarentee we will. Consumers love simplicity through centralization.

    > Trust in American companies, and big companies in general has been eroded.

    Where are you seeing that? I've seen general dislike of large corpos forever, and the anti-US sentiment is more common abroad from places like Europe that have never 'liked' US culture and companies.

  • goku12  8 days ago

    I'm all for Forgejo or even a simple forge without any namespaces (I abandoned GitHub when MS acquired them). But the major issue with these alternative platforms is the the discoverability of projects on them. Github doesn't have any noteworthy feature in this regard, but it has the first mover advantage. The users unfortunately ceded that advantage to them.

    Many forges are working on a federated development infrastructure. That's great. But I believe that for these platforms to really become popular, we must solve the problem of federated project search and discovery as well. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be paying much attention in this area.

  • 8n4vidtmkvmk  7 days ago

    I need an easy way to host a nice UI for mercurial. That's rock solid stable, zero maintenance.

    I've been pushing my repos to a random $5 server I have for years now. It's been rock solid. But I have no UI. I can push and pull and it supports exactly 1 user (me) and it's never gone down because I just never touch the server. I did go the extra mile to set up automatic backups but that's it.

    An issue tracker and code explorer would be nice.