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Re:Before GitHub by sikozu on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:21PM (#47942200)
Now is a great time for somebody to buy fossilhub.com and create a new community.
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Re:Before GitHub by powvans on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @07:43PM (#47942350)
I know someone[0] who is working on exactly this right now: https://fossilrepo.io/

I don't think he's got public sign ups turned on yet. Maybe hit him up on the Twitter for more info.

[0] - https://x.com/ragelink

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Re:Before GitHub by jimbosis on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:40AM (#47944225)
There's also "Chisel - Fossil SCM Hosting".

"This service is completely free and run because a service like it should exist."

https://chiselapp.com/

"All public repositories":

https://chiselapp.com/repositories/

I don't know if it has all the GitHub features people may be looking for.

Chisel runs on Flint, "The ISC licensed codebase behind http://chiselapp.com.":

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/flint/index

EDIT: Add "...should exist." sentence from the homepage.

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Re:Before GitHub by maccard on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:42AM (#47945698)
This appears to be down.
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Re:Before GitHub by nmz on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:08PM (#47950383)
It worked on ipv6 only for like a year, it seemed to be back this last month but it seems to be back down right now probably because of this whole github ragequit happening.
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Re:Before GitHub by jimbosis on Sunday May 03, 2026 @10:24AM (#47997256)
I'm just seeing these two replies today, but it appears to be back up. Timestamp: ca. 2026-05-03 14:19 UTC
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Re:Before GitHub by ClikeX on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:07AM (#47947197)
I already saw fossilhub.io mentioned in this thread, actually.
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