The ongoing enshittification of GritHub is getting so bad that I can't even use web archiving sites to see the comments in an issue discussion;
Most of you are probably too old to remember that GH wasn't always the go-to place for publishing source code. There was a time that almost every open source project was hosted on the MySpace of code forges (and the origin of that term), SourceForge.
We've moved en masse before folks, it's time to do it again.
It's been far too long since I haven't updated this properly, but here's a snapshot of some open source communities that have already moved off GritHub;
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/List_of_Community-Hosted_Code_Forge_Instances
It seems like forge federation is a harder problem to crack than we thought when BorgSoft bought GH. But I'm still hopeful that one day, many of these forges will interoperate to create the experience of a unified code forging space.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
