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Can you say more about why you're moving away from GitHub?
by puttycat 11mo ago
Can you say more about why you're moving away from GitHub?
- rodarima 11mo agoMany reasons, in no particular order: - It is extremely slow and resource intensive. Opening any link/page takes at least 3 seconds on my fastest computer, but the content is mostly text with images. - It cannot be used without JS (it used to be at least readable, now only the issue description loads). I want the bug tracker to be readable from Dillo itself. There are several CLI options but those are no better than just storing the issues as files and using my editor. - It forces users to create an account to interact and it doesn't interoperate with other forges. It is a walled garden owned by a for-profit corporation. - You need an Internet connection to use it and a good one. Loading the main page of the dillo repo requires 3 MiB of traffic (compressed) This is more than twice the size of a release of Dillo (we use a floppy disk as limit). Loading our index of all opened issues downloads 7.6 KiB (compressed). - Replying by email mangles the content (there is no Markdown?). - I cannot add (built-in) dependencies across issues. I'll probably write some post with more details when we finally consider the migration complete.
- dbtc 11mo agoI appreciate these priorities!
- hoistbypetard 11mo ago> I want the bug tracker to be readable from Dillo itself. I’m glad you’re prioritizing this and that you consider this a reason to choose a different forge.
- a96 11mo agoIt's an excellent choice. Though Microsoft alone should be a sufficient answer. Many people will never interact with github projects because it requires an account with the most unethical company that ever existed. https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
- 369548684892826 11mo ago> the most unethical company that ever existed Maybe in the tech world, but in the real world there are companies such as Nestlé out there competing for this title.
- lou1306 11mo agoNot even in the tech world. Microsoft did more than its fair share of cutthroat business practices, but there are tech companies out there that are quite literally thriving on worker exploitation.
- 1718627440 11mo agoAmazon?
- DrewADesign 11mo agoDamn near any gig economy company.
- mavhc 11mo agoI raise you The East India Company
- oblio 11mo agoWhich one?
- kristopolous 11mo agoBelgian Congolese tire companies under King Leopold, Atlantic slave trade companies, Basil Zaharoff and Vickers who sold machine guns to both sides agitating WW1, IG Farben who did the Nazi gas chambers, Shell oil who since the 1970s continues spending billions funding climate change disinformation and billions preparing for it, at the same time... It's a long list. Take Hyundai, a brand I drive, childhood slave factories, in the 2020s... You can't even brush your teeth without the ghosts of slavery.
- rationably 11mo agoHave you considered Sourcehut? sr.ht
- fouc 11mo agoReasons 1, 2, and 4 convince me the most. It's insane how slow and cumbersome github's code review page has been is ever since they moved from rails to react.
- blks 11mo agoMS will steal your code for their slop machines.
- arcanemachiner 11mo agoThey will happily steal it from the new site as well. :)
- mk89 11mo agoIt's even faster to scrape, apparently :)
- DrewADesign 11mo agoRight. It’s fair use to munge your work into competing products against your will if it’s for the _~•’AI’•~_
- thesuitonym 11mo agoI understand that it's only token resistance, but if it were me, I'd rather not give them approval to do it.