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Not shilling here, but big upvote for Sourcehut - https://sourcehut.org/

When you pay money to Drew DeVault and his crew, their work is all open source. And, that includes work outside of Sourcehut. They are also hired guns for existing open source projects.



My issue with Sourcehut is their arbitrary exclusion of certain classes of floss software. They're of course within their right to refuse hosting any software they don't like, but their ideologically-driven stance leaves a foul taste in my mouth and sets a horrible precedent for other misguided folks to follow.

If sourcehut is ever accepted as it is now and grows to become a major hosting platform for floss software, the entire floss ecosystem will suffer as a result.

For this reason I hope they correct course or remain forever insignificant.


    My issue with Sourcehut is their arbitrary exclusion of certain classes of floss software.
Can you give an example? Or a link to what is not allowed? I assume it is crypto-related.


Looks like a nice set of features, but that UX isn't going to win anyone over from Github/Gitlab/Gitea land.


I haven’t used Gitea but I hate GitHub and GitLabs’ UI.

I find it a giant mess of noise and basically cringe until I get to the specific project root and readme.

GitLab in particular seems to move settings and functions around on the page so I’m hunting for where the history or blame is.


Some basic spacing and font work would go a long, long way for SourceHut.


SourceHut doesn't require Javascript. If that means a _simple_ user interface, I'll take it.


Also, I forgot about it's performance index too: https://forgeperf.org/


Also upvoting for Sourcehut. I don't publish much of my code these days but Sourcehut is to me what GitHub was earlier before it got bit.




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