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Alternative github frontends? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 8 months ago by itmosi to c/[email protected]
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Github has become more bloated, slower and more user-hostile with each update (just like all other big corp platforms). SPA navigation slow like hell, the "new" file viewer/browser is hardly usable in my opinion, code search does not work without login, etc. So are there any good alternative FE where the following work (read only mode is enough):

  • Basic git stuff like commits, branches, tags, etc
  • File browser
  • Code search
  • Issues
  • Pull requests
  • Conversations
  • Wiki

For file browsing and searching I know the github1s.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In run a personal instance of forgejo, love it.

Everything I want regarding version control and workers. And more lightweight on the frontend side.

https://forgejo.org/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

+1 for Forgejo. Runs butter smooth even on not so high-end machines. You can even mirror your GitHub repos.

Plus: It is not owned by a for-profit organization.

[–] itmosi 12 points 8 months ago

I already self host my git server, I'm looking for an alternative front-end to browse github (because a lot of open source stuff still lives on it).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

GotHub seems to display basic GitHub stuff decently well.
https://gh.whateveritworks.org/

[–] itmosi 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This looks promising, but unfortunately the advertised just replace github.com with some alternative host doesn't work. I can't check the issues, wiki, etc, all pages give me error (except main repo url), eg:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Gothub is looking for a new maintainer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I mostly use GitHub through vscode's terminal. They've got plenty of extensions/plugins for git/github

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Depending on what you have a taste for, I seem to remember seeing this in Emacs:

https://github.com/magit/forge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I recently found https://github-wiki-see.page (Source) for wikis. It has the contents of the wikis with basic formatting, so it works, but it's not made to be a frontend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You should really try the GitHub CLI, it's amazing. I only use the GUI for tweaking settings and browsing here and there. Everything else you can do from JetBrains / Viscose native, including PRs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Codeberg is great

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I think you’re asking for alternative front ends to git, rather than GitHub?

I’m not sure if you want to retain access to Issues, Actions, Discussions and everything else on GitHub, but through another interface. Or if you’re asking to make a clean break from that data and ecosystem.

If it’s the former, then I think it’s either the web app (which you don’t like), or the CLI (gh). If it’s the latter, then I think any of the other options mentioned by others will do.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago

Gitlab is quite good and used by a lot of open source developers.