I thought this was the dumbest thing until I had one. Now I have one in every toilet.

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Legacy I would say. Github used to be the first and the best.

I know this is the answer, but I’m sad when the answer is “because we’ve always done it that way”.

Yeah, I have no clue how they make software that’s so damn inefficient.

Software is a gas.

I don’t think I’ve ever discovered projects by perusing GitHub. It’s always the “fork this” link on a project page or a link from an article.

I’ve learned I don’t use most of the internet the way everyone else does, so my anecdotal evidence is nothing to go by. 🤣

You bring up some good points. I agree on the risk, even though I’m a fan I find federated tools harder to get started with.

I agree git is decentralized, but services like GitHub are not. They’re more than just hosting code. They’re issues, wiki’s, CI/CD, peer reviews, etc.

how do you control who can and cannot make changes to your codebase?

I’d image it’s the same as now. Except now you could say @everyone@that-server is cool and can contribute, or @those-guys@over-there shouldn’t even be allowed to see this code.

How do you ensure you maintain access if a server goes down?

How do you do this on GitHub?

what value does that provide over the status quo?

I feel like this is the root of fediverse problems. It’s easy to send your first tweet, but that first toot takes some effort (I just learned they’re called toots).

i don’t get what benefit hosting your own git brings to be honest

Same reason to host anything, I’m not beholden to some company’s whims.

When I looked some could be disabled and some couldn’t 🤷
I’m not a devops engineer I only play one when no one else is willing.

I haven’t run into the resource issue (running in docker), but yeah I wish I could turn off some UI features. We never need to upload designs so why do I have to look at it on every issue?

I’m forced to agree, GitLab’s pricing could be easier to understand and more competitive.

I haven’t ran into the 5 user limit; I suspect that’s not a limit of the self-hosted version. I will say it’s a pain to get a clear understanding of what is available and what’s not on the free edition when self hosting… also there are 2 free editions (community and unlicensed enterprise) now which adds to the confusion.

That’s actually one of the reasons I’m partial to GitLab, it’s all open. Including their version of copilot.