Post #2762965

2026-05-22 14:33 UTC

I don’t know how you’ve not encountered a 504 yet if you’re actively using Codeberg. It’s a known issue with a lot of impact. GitLab’s CI might be better but otherwise, the interface is pretty horrible and no one I know wants to have anything to do with it. I understand that can be subjective but everyone I’ve suggested it to in the past has come back with the same thoughts. I remember trying radicle in its early days and having issues. Hopefully by now they’ve been resolved. Will check them out again. I’m not a professor but I’m asked often for advice by students. Both due to open source contributions and also due to friends.

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@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-05-22 16:38

Since my repos are spread across multiple instances, I deal won codeberg only intermittently and it looks like the 504s are about 2-3 weeks old. Not good, but just outside of the time I got busy in a repo that’s not on codeberg. As for gitlab’s interface, I guess it’s like switching from new reddit to lemmy, it’s different and you babe to get used to it. While quitting Github, I actually came to really appreciate Gitlab’s interface. It wasn’t easy at the beginning, but now I actually prefer it to GitHub’s interface. If the people you asked are longtime Github users and only use or used Gitlab a few times, I’m not surprised they don’t like it. Radicle is better than it was when I first tried it. For a person who doesn’t like the CLI, it’s probably utterly horrific, but feature-wise, it’s a distributed sourceforge. They still have a ways to go: no notifications for anything like patches or comments no CI web interface is read-only electron GUI is… Electron but makes its usage sane® but I tested that long ago doesn’t support huge repos e.g >1GB and it just won’t distribute But if the goal is just to publish code and have a distributed backup, radicle is very good at that.

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