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by Jnr 642 days ago
Would be great if there was a short video/asciinema/charts or some other short form guide on how you are supposed to use it.

It was not clear from the home page what exactly it is and how it works, and I don't really want to read the whole documentation.

For me pesonally Github, Gitlab and Gitea is all about discovery. Their interface is easy to understand, fast to search for repositories and easy to contribute. I am not sure what problem Radicle is solving, other than "reliance on big tech". And it has always been possible to mirror git repos from github and other platforms. You could not mirror issues and CI pipelines, but not sure if Radicle solves that.

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From the linked page here I couldn't find an obvious link through to the docs except by clicking "Install" which dropped me onto the user guides where I found this[1]. It looks like the main page[2] has the site map but I don't know why that top banner isn't on every page.

The main page[2] seems to be much more useful since it drops you to radicle browser page which is more of showing the actual product as you'd see it in terms of Gitlab/Github.

But I'm just going to say...they really need to drop the blue theming IMO because it's very hard to read and also just...too blue - everything just washes out.

EDIT: Just tried turning off --color-background-default, --color-background-float and --color-foreground-contrast and without changing anything else man does it get so much more readable - black text on white with a pleasant blue high-lighting scheme.

[1] https://radicle.xyz/guides/user

[2] https://radicle.xyz/

[3] https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz/rad:z3gqcJUoA...