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why not sourcehut?




Because the UI looks like it crafted by a Nix system admin and the user experience is garbage. Just my opinion.

Fair enough. I actually like the user experience. (despite having no experience with nix systems, may I add :D )

Unless you want to pay for the price increase and have no issue with the owner, then go for signing up for a sourcehut account.

Here's the pricing page, for anyone curious: https://sourcehut.org/pricing/

> All users who host projects on SourceHut are expected to pay according to their means. choose the subscription plan most appropriate to your means — there is no difference between the subscriptions besides price.

Interesting approach and asking for some money upfront to cover the actual hosting costs and other stuff feels pretty good - rather than having to worry about shady monetization and about whether your data is the product.

There's plenty of screenshots on the main page of the UI: https://sourcehut.org/

Some people will enjoy that kind of minimalism, definitely not everyone's cup of tea - feels really fast and reminds me a bit of Kanboard, though.

No idea about owner, not my place to comment.


Drew's direct engagement into tech cancel-culture (with targets such as DHH, RMS, Andreas Kling, Jack Dorsey), makes it difficult to do business with him (assuming hosted sourcehut service as an alternative to codeberg). Furthermore, at the newly proposed service rates it is much more liberating to self-host (any lightweight forge–including sourcehut).

Fair enough.

I haven't followed closely; but the few times I did, it seemed that he had reasonably nuanced opinions translating into upholdable values, rather than overzealous cancel-fever, whether I agreed with his opinions or not. To me this is not reason enough to not use his product, and I happen to like his product (much more than the alternatives anyway).

Also, it would be remiss of me not to appreciate the irony that you're effectively suggesting "cancelling" his business over his opinions which you consider of a "cancelly" nature ...




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