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Why would someone be motivated to contribute free code to Gitea after everything? Is "forgejo" really so stupid a name that people are willing to risk being exp

• lolinder 2y ago
  I'm still very much on the fence about Forgejo. I use it, but I don't trust the maintainers after seeing how they handled dissent in appointment of a moderator, and I wouldn't invest time in contributing to it directly at this stage. I added more details here for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41489578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41489578
  • bogwog 2y ago
    That kind of stuff is unavoidable with orgs like this (though tbf I've seen it more with European orgs...). Anywhere there's a group of people, there's a smaller group of people who are power hungry psychopaths. Considering the supposed evidence was deleted, I'm not just going to take your word for it (next time, use archive.org or similar). But either way, I don't care. The software works very well for me, and stroking an egomaniac or two's ego is a small price to pay for that.
    • lolinder 2y ago
      I don't expect you to take me at face value (though I will note that I linked to an HN discussion where other people comment on how weird the behavior was even before they nuked the whole discussion), but I will continue to share the story because I'm uncomfortable with how thoroughly quashed it was. I'm relatively confident it was on archive.org and has been purged by the Forgejo team. There's only one entry on archive.org and it's a month after the event. And I agree—the software works and I use it and I'm less sketched out by Forgejo than I am by Gitea. I'm just explaining why I'm not going to sink anytime into contributing to their project.
  • factchecking 2y ago
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