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by seanconaty 1202 days ago
https://sourcehut.org/pricing/
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Yeah, I can't in good faith recommend sourcehut anymore given their policies.
Oh, I kinda like it. They took a moral stance on something (good), explained it well (good) and made it easy to offboard (good).
Yeah, same. I could never use a service that will just arbitary ban any legal and legit project type, just because of the owners bias.
Personally I've read enough blog posts off that domain to not click that link. YMMV.
How do people like sourcehut.org for open source projects? For startups? For established "enterprise"?

I overall like GitLab for startups, especially since I can do my own flavor of Kanban with the scoped labels feature of their Premium account. So I'm leaning towards also moving my personal open source to gitlab.com, just to simplify. I would've already moved, but gitlab.com's CloudFlare setup is blocking my Firefox. And a couple times now GitLab has changed the pricing dramatically, and I won't like surprises like that after I've invested many hours to move there.

The "we use email for pull requests, like Linux" is a "you've got to be kidding me" level facepalm
Now that I think of it, that's maybe not a terribly bad idea for some open source projects in which I want a little friction to submitting patches. (Because, for those projects, I actually dislike patches. It's usually more work for me to review for design and code quality than to make the changes myself, if they were good changes at all).

And there's the mess when people are driven by email notifications for Git repo changes/events that they then access in a Web UI. It's great for wasting people's time, and people also end up with piles of Git repo emails that they casually archive/delete, potentially missing things, due to DRY violation and because there's more steps between looking at the email and going to the Web UI to handle things.

But when you just want random people to be able to log into a Web site and interact with whatever computer-mediated workflow there, telling people to use old-school email is maybe counterproductive.

Seems like a great filter to me.