TechTakes

I’d still like to start an awful.systems sub for folks to discuss their own open source projects (and in the, what, month or so since I proposed it I’m still stuck on finding a good name), but alongside that it’s becoming very clear that our projects will need a home that isn’t github. I’m having a hell of a time finding an alternative that:

• doesn’t suck for reading code and docs (everything, even GitHub itself lately, fails here, even though it’s what I spend 90% of my non-work time in github doing)
• supports pull requests

there are some nice to haves that so far nothing seems to have:

• if we need to host it as part of awful.systems, setting it up and administrating it shouldn’t fucking suck. it feels like a decentralized app that comes with the repo and supports local hosting would be a good complement for git, but everything I’ve seen that tries this is fucking awful to use (hello fossil)
• federation would be amazing. there’s actually a protocol some folks are developing to federate across code forges (aka github clones), but it seems like it’s far from done
• maybe it also shouldn’t be ugly as fuck? like I’m not expecting much but it’s not charming how many of these look like some shit from the 90s nobody’s nostalgic for