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by carapace 1708 days ago
The mind-blowing thing is, first, that FOSS projects use a proprietary system (for DVCS and for "good PR interface, Wiki, issues, discussions and whatnot") at all and second that they didn't bail en mass when it was acquired by MS, the traditional bogeyman of FOSS philosophy.
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pdimitar 1708 days ago
People are busy. They need to get work done today. I'll migrate all my repos tomorrow -- and deprive myself of sleep if I have to -- if a solid GitHub competitor shows up.

(And I'm not counting GitLab, it's worse in almost every way. And is very slow.)

We're way past idealistic slogans. Be the change you want to see. Give example to the rest of us. Many will follow.

In the meantime, I want my free time mostly free of computers.

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carapace 1708 days ago
I feel ya friend. Part of the irony is that an unarguably superior FOSS competitor to GitHub hasn't shown up. (Can you imagine if Linux were worse than Windows? Egad!)

FWIW, I like (and pay for) sr.ht even though it doesn't have feature parity with GH.

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sofixa 1708 days ago
> And I'm not counting GitLab, it's worse in almost every way. And is very slow.

Hate to be that person, but GitLab is better than GitHub at everything. UX is different in some places, and it's an entirely subjective question which one is better ( i prefer GitLab but to each their own), but in terms of features it isn't even close - GitLab absolutely blows GitHub out of the water, even with Microsoft's incredible investment and recent deluge of announcements. In terms of speed i think GitLab is slower while doing some things, but it's not ( at least for me) painful like Jira Cloud is.

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pdimitar 1707 days ago
I use both and I like them both but GitHub strikes me as less cluttered in the UI and easier to navigate. Might be a force of habit, I am not sure.

I manage GitLab just fine but it's way too slow for me.

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