We should make an alternative git site, but how to acquire users?

Make it nerdy enough to scare of agentic coders only. Also, blackjack and hookers are said to be helpful in such circumstances.

	▲	mghackerlady 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		sourcehut is pretty close

dd8601fn 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Forgejo is a thing. But the headlines lately make it sound like it’s not in great shape either.

Could you expand? I couldn't find anything relevant after a few search attempts.

	▲	dd8601fn 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, look for HN headlines with forgejo and carrot (iirc). It made a lot of noise in the last couple weeks.

tantalor 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What do you need users for?

GH is not a social network

I don't know. Everyone seems to be using GitHub only because everyone else is using GitHub. Apparently that's important somehow. Me, I use "git init"

It's a lot easier to get bug reports and fixes when everyone is on the same auth system.

That's why there is also a call for federated forges

	▲	tardedmeme 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Why is it easier to submit a bug report if my bug reporting system is run by the same company as your code repository? Why are those things even slightly related?
	▲	tantalor 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> same auth system I'm confused with auth has to do with it? We've had OAuth 2.0 since 2012

chrisjj 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> We should make an alternative git site, but how to acquire users?

Buy ad space on Github's outage page?

codeberg is doing fine

	▲	Anon1096 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If measured the same way, ie combined status across all products, then codeberg is also at a whopping 0 9s. https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg