I wonder if there even is public mercurial hosting available anymore. This git monoculture is starting to be a bit annoying.

For the longest time I just couldn’t see what the fuzz (about Git) was about. But after finally switching I don’t think I’d ever go back.

What VCS were you coming from, and what makes Git so much nicer?

I believe Git and Mercurial are considered to be 'about as good' by most.

SourceHut offers mercurial hosting, though it’s entirely community maintained.

Sourcehut.

Heptapod supports a Mercurial hosting service (free for OSS) that’s a fork of GitLab: https://heptapod.net/

Really appreciate the link. Much prefer mercurial to git on my own stuff.

Same.

To be fair, hardly anyone ever used Bitbucket due to Mercurial support.

Some people probably used it because for awhile, pre-GitLab, it was the GitHub alternative with the most generous free tier for private repos.

However, the overwhelming majority of users probably use it because they're already in the Atlassian ecosystem due to JIRA.

Bitbucket is like an ex girlfriend you don't quite recall why you broke up with, but afterwards every time you meet her and hear her voice it all comes back in a rush how disgusted she made you feel.

Heptapod archived 250,000 Bitbucket Mercurial repos and runs fork of GitLab that supports Mercurial: https://octobus.net/blog/2020-04-23-heptapod-and-swh.html