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848 points thefilmore | 3 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.643s | source
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tgsovlerkhgsel ◴[13 May 25 07:08 UTC] No.43970332[source]▶
On one hand, centralization at a commercial provider isn't great.

On the other hand, the plethora of different self-hosted platforms with limited feature sets is a huge pain. Just finding the repo is often a frustrating exercise, and then trying to view, or worse, search the code without checking it out is often even more frustrating or straight out impossible.

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1. elric ◴[13 May 25 09:22 UTC] No.43971090[source]▶
> Just finding the repo is often a frustrating exercise

Surely most open source projects have a link to their source code? Whether it's github, gitlab, sourcehut, or anything else?

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2. LegionMammal978 ◴[13 May 25 15:10 UTC] No.43973815[source]▶
Many GNU and GNU-adjacent projects will happily list their release tarballs, but make it annoyingly difficult to find the underlying repos that most of them use. Usually the link is squirreled away somewhere in the "contributing" guidelines.
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3. mdaniel ◴[13 May 25 15:33 UTC] No.43974075[source]▶
AFAIK https://savannah.gnu.org is the "sourceforge" for GNU projects. I was thrilled when they stood up a GitLab instance but recently locked it down so one can't even browse without being logged in https://emba.gnu.org/explore -> sign in