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Been using this for a while now and very happy with it. I decided to stop using Github for personal projects due to political disagreements with the company and

by tazjin 11y ago

Been using this for a while now and very happy with it. I decided to stop using Github for personal projects due to political disagreements with the company and the fact that git should really not be centralised. Gogs has probably 95% feature parity with Github and it is a lot faster (is Github still Ruby? That would explain it ...) I run a personal Kubernetes cluster for services and getting Gogs up and running was super-simple: https://git.tazj.in/tazjin/infrastructure/src/master/gogs/gogs-rc.yaml https://git.tazj.in/tazjin/infrastructure/src/master/gogs/go...

mbrock 11y ago
How can you compare speeds when you can't run GitHub on your setup? Running a multimillion user service is vastly different from running your own personal server, right?
- minaguib 11y ago
  End-user usability feel (perceived speed) is all that matters, no ?
  - Touche 11y ago
    Sure, but you can't conclude that the language is the source of GitHub's (relative to this) lesser speed.
paukiatwee 11y ago
Just curious, where (AWS, DO, GCE or other) do you run your Kubernetes cluster ?
- tazjin 11y ago
  GCE, it works extremely well there!
umanwizard 11y ago
Why would ruby explain it? Do you think most of the time you spend waiting for GitHub pages to load is due to CPU load on the application layer? Why would we expect this to be the case?
- FooBarWidget 11y ago
  I don't think grandparent has any concrete reason to think that Ruby is at fault. When you said "due to CPU load on the application layer" you are probably already thinking further than s/he did. My guess is that s/he's just performing a middle-eyebrow dismissal based on some negative feeling towards Ruby.
fiatjaf 11y ago
But you lose the "social" aspect of GitHub, right? How do you deal with this?
- tazjin 11y ago
  When contributing to other projects I still use Github as it's of course up to the authors to decide where they want to host their code. For my own projects it doesn't matter so much, few people contribute to my Emacs configuration or dotfiles :)

by tazjin 11y ago

mbrock 11y ago

How can you compare speeds when you can't run GitHub on your setup? Running a multimillion user service is vastly different from running your own personal server, right?

minaguib 11y ago
End-user usability feel (perceived speed) is all that matters, no ?
- Touche 11y ago
  Sure, but you can't conclude that the language is the source of GitHub's (relative to this) lesser speed.

paukiatwee 11y ago

Just curious, where (AWS, DO, GCE or other) do you run your Kubernetes cluster ?

tazjin 11y ago
GCE, it works extremely well there!

umanwizard 11y ago

Why would ruby explain it? Do you think most of the time you spend waiting for GitHub pages to load is due to CPU load on the application layer? Why would we expect this to be the case?

FooBarWidget 11y ago
I don't think grandparent has any concrete reason to think that Ruby is at fault. When you said "due to CPU load on the application layer" you are probably already thinking further than s/he did. My guess is that s/he's just performing a middle-eyebrow dismissal based on some negative feeling towards Ruby.

fiatjaf 11y ago

But you lose the "social" aspect of GitHub, right? How do you deal with this?

tazjin 11y ago
When contributing to other projects I still use Github as it's of course up to the authors to decide where they want to host their code. For my own projects it doesn't matter so much, few people contribute to my Emacs configuration or dotfiles :)