[rgoulter]

> Where is the source?

The homepage links to https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/?search=sr.ht (EDIT: which is now also the URL in the blogpost with the link text "100% open source software")

There are also Hg repos at hg.sr.ht; idk how easy it is to find git.sr.ht from hg.sr.ht.

> how can they beat Bitbucket while the code is unusable

Well, for Hg users, it's not like there's going to be much of a choice in a year (given BB is sunsetting Hg support), right?

[tstusr20190823]

Mercurial users can use their builtin Web UI unlike Git users

[Sir_Cmpwn]

git has gitweb:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb

But in both cases, the user has to have a server to put it on, making services like Sourcehut and Bitbucket (may it rest in peace) useful.

[tstusr20190823]

gitweb requires server setup, while Mercurial web ui can quickly start locally without any configuration and that was the one of mercurial selling point until github and other services arrives.

[rgoulter]

I think the way you're using hg's web UI is slightly different to the uses I think of for sites like GitHub, BitBucket or SourceHut.

A web UI is fine for being able to see the different commits, and files at different points in time.

But people also make use of GitHub as a hosted repository for sharing code with others, as an issue tracker, and for doing code review etc. -- for sharing things outside a local network, there's the understanding that either you're paying someone else to host it, or you're making effort to host it yourself, so "requires setup" isn't much of an issue.

"sourcehut competes with bitbucket" puts more emphasis on the latter than the former.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

`git instaweb` is sufficient to get a working gitweb stood up.

[madmulita]

$ git instaweb

lighttpd not found. Install lighttpd or use --httpd to specify another httpd daemon.

Apparently, not.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

You have to install the dependencies of a piece of software to use that piece of software.