I always found it wierd that people flocked to github. The app sucks, if I have to use it for work it infuriates me at nearly every turn with its sad excuse for UI. People like free sh*.

As for gitlab...yuck. But whatever. Most of the dev tool space is really just "sh* we have to put up with now", none of it is any good, all of it is dated from the early aughts, and taken as a whole is even worse because none of it works together.

While software development itself got better in the last ten years these tools stayed the same or got worse (enshittification). And this is part of why folks are self hosting.

The other part is that AI is destroying the Internet and its time to pack your bags anyway. The smart people already have.

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CodesInChaos 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I always found it weird that people flocked to github.

Same reason we ended up with git. Their predecessors were significantly worse, and then they had enough momentum to keep going.

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locknitpicker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I always found (...)

You broadcasted your negative feedback but it seems you had no positive remarks to give. If you feel everything is so bad, would you mind sharing what tolerable alternatives are there to GitHub and GitLab?

	▲	20after4 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> mind sharing what tolerable alternatives are there to GitHub and GitLab? Not the op, and while your criticism of their negativity may be somewhat justified, the ask is kind of silly. There are a bunch of well known alternatives: Self-hosted free software: Gerrit <https://www.gerritcodereview.com> Phorge <https://we.phorge.it> SaaSsy: Codeberg <https://codeberg.org> SourceHut <https://sr.ht/> There are a lot more, of course, these are just the ones I have experience with.

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carlosjobim 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well you're a developer. Why don't you make something better instead of complaining?