Deshittification

Some thoughts about Codeberg as an end-user

#Codeberg #deshittification

A few weeks ago I had to ask a dev there something. As I'd never used it, to my surprise, figuring the UI/UX out was pretty seamless, like the designers went for a lean version of GitHub.

RSS pulls a lot of things and is easy to spot. Visual noise is minimal. Update links are legible. Color scheme has a good contrast despite being inaggressive. And elements in the page are blocky and so divide the different parts of a page efficiently.

Politically, apparently some people promote it for not being American (apparently German?). Dunno the company behind the service, and also don't know how tied to their government they are, so can't comment on that front.

Also can't comment on maintaining a project there, but since a site's design is usually consistent, I'd presume it's lean/seamless there too.

Overall, imo as an end-user, it did seem decent, and wish more sites went for this design philosophy when trying to be an alternative to other services.

Only concern is RSS: it does pull a lot of things, and I couldn't find a way to filter stuff out, so I worry the noise a more popular or active project would cause.

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