Can you say more about why you're moving away from GitHub?

rodarima 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Many 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.

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hoistbypetard 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

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a96 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It'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/

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369548684892826 an hour ago | parent [-]

> 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 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not 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.

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dbtc 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I appreciate these priorities!

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blks an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

MS will steal your code for their slop machines.