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Comment by bogwog | Hacker News Reader

So it seems like nobody was using the OSS version, and they didn’t want to maintain two versions if nobody was using it.

It also says they offer a free self hosted version for individuals, but I couldn’t find that on their site.

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First they offered a Free Enterprise tier for 10 seats, they've removed this a few months back, their OSS lacked even some basic things as language support, building it was impossible due to lack of documentation/breakage in the build process for several months and they didn't offer sourcegraph-oss images.

At some point, one individual on Github managed to get it working and his images got 10k+ pulls on DockerHub. That's hardly "nobody". Also, some people removed telemetry from OSS version so Sourcegraph didn't even know that anyone is using it.

Also, they were open-closed-open-closed in the last 5 years.

Their website is a mess, even employees on github are providing contradicting information. Original commit message that relicensed bunch of stuff had errors in it regarding what exactly will be closed source now.

I am using the version you can install via `brew install sourcegraph`, though they seem to have abandoned it to make people install Cody (which requires an account even for local use). I will probably use the Brew version for as long as it works. The major pain point is that it seems to have a timeout for repo discovery at 5s, so you can't just clone all of your GH starred repos and search them this way.

P.S. Started a discussion regarding the Homebrew package, but pretty sure it's canned: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/discussions/54589

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