baepaul

fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future.

but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.)

we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out that we really liked it too.

oh wow i have not thought about terminal browsers in a while (i used to use one back in the day in college haha).

yeah, that admittedly is not priority, but thanks for taking the time to check it out.

it is based off a minimum pixel as of now, apologies.

the overall reason why we didn't ship a mobile site is that code is inherently very hard to read on mobile

and i think to do that properly, you have to design explicitly for it. (and that is not, in fact, something that i do want to vibe code)

thank you!

i'm not aware of the old macOS inspector pattern, but this sounds super interesting and i agree with the critique of inconsistency in github's behavior.

this reminds me a tad of superhuman's right panel too which auto-populates upon writing a time (or typing a name i believe?), which is a feature i do find personally useful as well.

i haven't thought seriously about hovers on nouns quite yet, but this is giving me much to munch on.

thank you sincerely this is dope.

yeah the site isn't perfect.

my fixation here is to make everything load instant, but that is dependent on server latencies, which right now is admittedly slow as we only have one server in the US.

but thank you for giving it a shot nonetheless!

thank you mbreese, i know folks can be mean and i also recognize where they're coming from (we are certainly far from perfect), but this comment is nice to read.

thank you for the empathy.

yeah this is because we're currently (very temporarily) hosting things in NFS and git stat operations are very slow since they assume a fast file FS. we'll fix that in a few.

and yeahhhh, i do try to be very non-marketing in all that i say, but something about the title made me a bit ambitious, apologies.

thank you both for asking.

i think the honest answer here is autonomy. the freedom to choose our own tech stack, our own product priorities, and our own design.

i'll also admit that i don't know forgejo's own priorities as well as i do our own, and that is negligence that we're due to correct. maybe they are perfectly aligned and it does make sense for us to join forces.

but just as with any FOSS project, they have the freedom to choose what they work on as do we, and i intend on respecting that.

we are well aware and duly noted. thank you for the feedback

yeah this has been pointed out a few times, will revise the copytext later but will keep it up for the duration of the post.

hope our sentiment is clearer in the comments that i've made, i think i've made the mistake of phrasing here with the "anti", i'll revisit it.

edit: dang has removed it, apologies for the confusion i caused, that was my mistake.

this hn thread is interesting as it feels like i'm getting to revisit a lot of decisions i've made in the design haha.

i debated this for a while too, some of my thinking for how it is is that i wanted the focus of a repository page to be _the repository_. so as much as we can, trim things that might detract.

it was also done with the intention that it's actually pretty rare for a user to find or explore repositories on github (more likely you find them here on hn or on twitter), so had the restraint of really trying _not_ to make gitdot anything like social media.

but thank you nonetheless for the feedback, i'll revisit it proper and see if i can make this more intuitive.

thank you both for the feedback, i'm revisiting it now and i do see what the both of you are illustrating.

i think i will get rid of the change on hover, it is a distraction and perhaps was just my ambition to show people how fast we load.

edit: fixed

thank you for the feedback, yeah i've been going and trimming a few places where i think my own tendencies have gone a bit too far.

i will also say on accessibility, i recognize the site is a bit too small font in general — and will fix it soon.