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That's... really rude. Sourcehut has been around for a while:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=sourcehut&sort=byPopularity&pr...

Doesn't mean you're not fishing for users there.

Isn't literally everyone fishing for users? Relax dude. People need somewhere to go and maybe they'll find Sourcehut suitable to their needs. I don't know what your definition of spam is but this definitely doesn't qualify for my (unusually strict) definition of it.

Well, the page contains nothing but a tool to import data from a competitor in order to get users of the competitor to sign up for your service. That meets my definition of spam to a certain extend.

The competitor is leaving the market, which hardly makes them a competitor at all. Any users who don't want to be left out in the cold need tools like this.

Then why not make the tool open source + standalone and compatible with other alternatives like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Gogs/etc. so the users can pick the competitor or tool they like?

The tool is open source, and none of the services you listed support Mercurial, so...

But it's not standalone so everyone can use it privately, it only works for your service.

If it's open source then surely you, or someone, could modify it for other services.

Moaning when someone gave you free apples because you want apple pie; maybe make your own pastry.

I'm moaning because someone wants to sell me their entire apple tree in order to get the free apple pie while I would be happy to get a few apple to make my own. The service is deeply connected to SirCmpwns paid service and an obvious spam bait.

You can run it privately: https://man.sr.ht/installation.md

It still only works for sourcehut.

Why are you stating that the tool is not open source? Did you even check that?

Open source + standalone, it's not standalone.

None of them support Mercurial. Everything is open source. You’re behaving incredibly weirdly.

OMG dude, just let it go. You've dug your heels in so much that HN won't even let me reply to your latest comment because you've hit a depth limit. This is just a marketing page. It wasn't sent to you as an email. Nobody erected a billboard outside your house. It's on the internet, where people are free to create and ignore stuff as they please. Do you really think you're bringing something to the table at this point or are you just trolling for fun?

I just don't like spam on the frontpage.

That’s the point. That’s the point for half of the Internet.

Doesn't mean we have to let spam campaigns on the frontpage.

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