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OTOH, a trend towards self hosted solutions will only make finding projects to explore harder.

• r0muald 11y ago
  Or create the demand for an index/curation platform/search engine, which would be something quite interesting, I think.
  • nitrogen 11y ago
    Google had one but they shut it down.
  • Rondom 11y ago
    "Back in the old days" we had Freshmeat...
• zanny 11y ago
  gitlab.com is a fine compromise, albeit I'm not a fan of their "private repos for free" model, it means a lot of software that might have utility if it were default-open will be lost behind default-privte repositories. But if gitlab jumps the shark like github is doing we can always have anyone in the ecosystem selfhost a clone, albeit we would need to reimplement all the enterprise features people want.
  • 9248 11y ago
    In my experience it was the other way around. I signed up with gitlab only because they offer free private repos. Now since I already have an account with them and I don't have to go through the hassle of setting up stuff again, I'm only a couple clicks away from putting some project in the open.
• zzzeek 11y ago
  Self hosted solutions lend themselves towards being freely indexable via search engines, many of which are optimized towards source code repositories.
• zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 11y ago
  Like the move to self-hosted websites made finding websites harder? /s