Which services do you have an account on?

Since i'm getting tired of gitlab but am staying in part because it feels like moving to something "more obscure" would be a barrier to contributors

Boosts welcome

@thezoq2 IMHO depending what level of contributor activity you want, it may be kind of helpful since GitHub might attract a lot of people, but those who are legitimately interested in the project I can't imagine would mind an account on something like Codeberg.

@thezoq2 I’m paying for a GitHub account, partly because they offer things I need for shipping commercial software. I file a fair amount of bug reports and pull requests to projects there.

I have a gitlab account, but very rarely use projects hosted there.

Codeberg is interesting, but as I can’t use it for the fraction of my code that’s not open source I’ve never created an account (I would if needed to contribute to a project, but that’s not come up yet).

@repnop Oh, I'm not moving to GitHub, but I am highly tempted to move to Codeberg.

I know at least a few cases where I didn't contribute to something because it was hosted on a self hosted gitlab and didn't feel like creating yet another account

@lluad Would creating an account on codeberg be a hurdle to you contributing to a project hosted there?

@thezoq2 Not really, not beyond the “eh, I have to work out how to create an account” activation energy.

@thezoq2 I think a questionnaire like "I see projects on __", "I wouldn't mind creating an account to report issues", "Wouldn't mind to contribute" and then for Codeberg, Gitlab and Self-hosted Forge would give more insights.

@lixou I don't think gitlab or codeberg have any kind of discoverability worth caring about if that's what you mean by "I see projects on _"

And I doubt most people will say no to minding to contribute, but it is a hurdle regardless

@thezoq2 github was the obscure thing, when it launched. People had accounts on sourceforge and savannah, maybe launchpad. Codeberg will grow. And in a couple years nobody will think twice about hosting their project there.

@thezoq2 none

@thezoq2 FWIW I find Codeberg much more pleasant to use than GitLab… and since *neither* is the Big Name Brand, maybe the network-effect aspect is similar for the two?

@adrian Yeah, gitlab is extremely sluggish and the interface has always been janky.

Damn, maybe I need to look into moving, I guess I'd need to figure out CI runners first though...

@thezoq2 oh right, the current state of CI is maybe the one big downside of Codeberg…

@thezoq2 I wish platforms like that just allowed to do an anon push from git directly and that would open a PR ...

@thezoq2 I only made a gitlab account because of surfer

@thezoq2 Source hut claims that lot of its features don't require accounts at all, though I went ahead and got an account so I'm not sure exactly which ones.

@ptvirgo True, but I think that's because they do email patches, which I personally don't think is nearly as nice as the PR/MR flow

@thezoq2 So you want a service that does PR/MR flow without requiring account sign up?

@thezoq2 i wish Forgejo would finish implementing federation so we can collaborate the fediverse way

@ptvirgo No, I'm curious how popular the services are since moving to a less popular service comes with a barrier to new contributors

@msx Oh yeah, that'd be great

@thezoq2 I have accounts on all three services only so that I can interact with projects hosted there, but I host my own code under a self-hosted forgejo instance... except that it is currently offline due to AI bot scraping. The situation is bad right now.

@thezoq2 Network effects are a whole thing. Tecnhically I have a GitHub bit if i were getting into a new project, I'd go for codeberg. How would you want that tallied?