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shevy-javatoday at 4:05 PM3 repliesview on HN

I think this can only happen if there are viable alternatives.

For instance, the UI at setups such as https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng is quite ok-ish, in my opinion. Granted, it is mostly copy/paste from github but that still is about 1000000x better than sourceforge's interface - and gitlab's UI too (I just hate gitlab's UI, they seem to love complexity and a billion features only 0.000001% ever need; GitHub, with all its faults, is for the most part really simple - not everywhere, e. g. GitHub wiki setup sucks, but by and large I think it is simple overall).


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danudeytoday at 4:09 PM

Github definitely has the better UI but if it weren't for network effects I'd be pushing to migrate to Gitlab pretty hard.

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wongarsutoday at 4:32 PM

If replacing github wholesale isn't viable, how does the story for replacing GitHub Actions look like currently? I don't remember the pre-Github-Actions days of everyone using CircleCI with a github integration in a negative light. I've noticed that since then a couple of CI providers have sprung up that differentiate themselves with faster build speeds, but I haven't really kept up with that market

joshuanapolitoday at 4:33 PM

I've been thinking of reverting back to Circle CI.