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Why was this hosted on gitlab.com ? If you're not on github, the discoverablity is pretty low. You are not self hosting. There is no upside for a project like t

Why was this hosted on gitlab.com ? If you're not on github, the discoverablity is pretty low. You are not self hosting. There is no upside for a project like this to be on gitlab.com. If you're already taking the hit of not being mainstream, why not self host in a sane country ?

neilv 2y ago
I don't know about this project, but some projects fled GitHub on principle, when they sold out to MS. If this project were, say, an adtech company, or someone publishing open source solely for resume-boosting reasons, then principles might not matter.
- vivzkestrel 2y ago
  i dont understand this principle at all, mind explaining what is the problem with MS owning github?
  - Maledictus 2y ago
    https://jacquesmattheij.com/what-is-wrong-with-microsoft-buying-github/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/what-is-wrong-with-microsoft-buy...
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bsder 2y ago
1) There are lots of reasons to avoid Github and they are all spelled Microsoft. 2) Putting something on Gitlab means that there is one level of activation energy between idiots trying to pad out some corporate "social goodwill" number by "fixing" things on your project. If I ever had to open-source anything, I would host it somewhere else and mirror a read-only repo to github.
- bdw5204 2y ago
  I've never experienced the latter but if somebody wants to waste their time sending me unwanted pull requests I can just ignore them.
brnt 2y ago
Discoverability is solved by being on the Mozilla AddOn store. Besides, not everybody cares about discoverability.
- ivann 2y ago
  But it was removed from AMO. That was an issue as people that installed it from AMO just stopped receiving updates silently. You had to uninstall it and re-install the gitlab version for the auto-update to work again.
  - brnt 2y ago
    Hmm, didn't catch that. I see there's still _a_ Bypass add-on on Mozilla. There always were a few, and close forks last I bothered to check. Is this different?
    - ivann 2y ago
      There are some but with very few users and limited to a small number of sites. The only one still on AMO that comes close is the one by iamadamdev (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-for-firefox/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...) which is discussed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016918
  - timbit42 2y ago
    It was removed from AMO after it was already on the site. Maybe they didn't want to move it.

neilv 2y ago

I don't know about this project, but some projects fled GitHub on principle, when they sold out to MS. If this project were, say, an adtech company, or someone publishing open source solely for resume-boosting reasons, then principles might not matter.

vivzkestrel 2y ago
i dont understand this principle at all, mind explaining what is the problem with MS owning github?
- Maledictus 2y ago
  https://jacquesmattheij.com/what-is-wrong-with-microsoft-buying-github/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/what-is-wrong-with-microsoft-buy...
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bsder 2y ago

1) There are lots of reasons to avoid Github and they are all spelled Microsoft. 2) Putting something on Gitlab means that there is one level of activation energy between idiots trying to pad out some corporate "social goodwill" number by "fixing" things on your project. If I ever had to open-source anything, I would host it somewhere else and mirror a read-only repo to github.

bdw5204 2y ago
I've never experienced the latter but if somebody wants to waste their time sending me unwanted pull requests I can just ignore them.

brnt 2y ago

Discoverability is solved by being on the Mozilla AddOn store. Besides, not everybody cares about discoverability.

ivann 2y ago
But it was removed from AMO. That was an issue as people that installed it from AMO just stopped receiving updates silently. You had to uninstall it and re-install the gitlab version for the auto-update to work again.
- brnt 2y ago
  Hmm, didn't catch that. I see there's still _a_ Bypass add-on on Mozilla. There always were a few, and close forks last I bothered to check. Is this different?
  - ivann 2y ago
    There are some but with very few users and limited to a small number of sites. The only one still on AMO that comes close is the one by iamadamdev (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-for-firefox/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...) which is discussed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016918
- timbit42 2y ago
  It was removed from AMO after it was already on the site. Maybe they didn't want to move it.