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Re:Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor by inferiorhuman on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:58AM (#37608054)
Mind you I use (and thus pay for) Sourcehut: the vast majority of folks won't be cross shopping Sourcehut and GitHub. As it stands now the UX is (to put it charitably) bad. There's a lot to like, but overall Sourcehut is disjointed rather than cohesive. The workflow itself is also an acquired taste. With a bit of spit and polish Sourcehut could be quite nice to use, but it's not there yet. Hell, I bet Drew could pick up some of the UX folks that GitHub laid off.

The others mentioned are more or less knockoffs of GitHub, because at one point GitHub was quite worth emulating.

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Re:Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor by internetter on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:13AM (#37608147)
> Hell, I bet Drew could pick up some of the UX folks that GitHub laid off.

Drew would never.

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Re:Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor by inferiorhuman on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:36PM (#37619550)
Yeah, ideally he wouldn't.
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Re:Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor by prepend on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:28PM (#37619502)
I bet there will be more sourcehut customers than this person’s new offering.

He doesn’t even know his competitors.

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Re:Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor by bradrydzewski on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:09PM (#37624520)
Very possible. SourceHut is great and seems to be most popular with developers and open source teams (although I'm sure they also have corporate users too). We are more focused on companies and enterprises. These are different segments of the market with different needs. The former also tends to have higher user counts with lower average deal size, while the latter has lower user counts with very high average deal size.

With that being said, Gitness is a rebranding of Drone, which has 10,000+ active installations so I would say we are off to a pretty good start!

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