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>There are countless web frontends[^1] to expose a git tree on the internet, I didn't study your cited list extensively but it looks like a list of tools inste
by jasode 6y ago
>There are countless web frontends[^1] to expose a git tree on the internet,
I didn't study your cited list extensively but it looks like a list of tools instead of free repo hosting. E.g. Gitweb and WebGitNet are not analogous to "github.com".
Most devs are not interested in self-hosting a git repo so looking at a list of web frontends for git isn't solving the problem.
>, without the community/social aspect of github.
There are at least 3 categories of social interactions on github:
+ Issues
- PRs
+ Discussions
... and for the repo of this particular thread, the developer is still using +Issues and +Discussions. He just wants to opt out of PRs for the reasons stated in README.md.
- bityard 6y ago> Most devs are not interested in self-hosting a git repo I mean, the _old_ way of sharing source code was to upload it to an FTP mirror, and then once the Internet got "modern," a personal website. GitHub is not the only way to get a project on the Internet, it's just the most popular way at the moment.
- jabbany 6y agoThe _old_ way costs money :) which actually limited the FOSS community to people who can either afford hosting or have access to some kind of free hosting through their job/school. The fact GitHub itself has become one of the easiest ways to setup a personal website says a lot about the availability of good, free, managed static hosting without ads.