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Comment by xandrius | Hacker News Reader

Why wouldn't this possible on, say, GitLab or Bitbucket?

All of my new stuff is on GitLab. I have seen zero interest in any of my projects, even the ones that were carried over from Github (which are archived). It could just be that I am a dull coder, but I'm leaning more on the notion that discovery is hard in GitLab.

This, and worse: I’ve stopped using libraries that migrated to GitLab in my own personal projects, because I just can’t be bothered to check for updates there, or deal with the UX, or log in to report bugs because I don’t really want to create another account.

I remember when SourceForge was a thing, and GitHub was just tremendously superior feature-wise and community-wise, with new issues and PRs for stuff coming in daily. GitLab, Codeberg, etc. may have 90% feature parity, but they’re not anywhere near the ease of interaction.

(I’ve also set up a Gitea instance on my NAS to mirror my own stuff, some GitHub projects that might be controversial—like emulators-and stuff from GitLab and Codeberg. And guess what, I seldom use that as well to keep track of external projects.)

Sounds like you don't have w GitLab account and don't visit it frequently enough to get used to it?

I mean we can't really complain when alternatives exist, have 90%+ be feature parity but they are slightly different in terms of UX. Isn't that basically summarising FOSS? You trade a bit of UI/UX for the freedom and openness.

don't forget CodeBerg

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