Katerina MarchánMay 19, 2025

In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:

Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?

I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?

Boosts and ideas welcome!

If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org

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Show threadCodebergMay 19, 2025

@zkat You might get more people from our community onboarded if they don't need to join #Discord in order to participate. 😉

Most people over here are on #Matrix, #XMPP, #IRC or #Signal.

Show threadKaterina Marchán
@Codeberg I’ve had very mixed results with e.g. matrix fwiw, even as a former p active advocate, which is why I tend to reach for discord first. I can try making a matrix channel though and see what happens
May 19, 2025 at 9:52pmWeb
Show threadCodebergMay 19, 2025

@zkat Yeah, I don't have a favourite messaging app either. However, it feels like choosing Discord is similar to choosing GitHub, because *something is not quite right yet*.

~f

Show threadJason Bowen 🇺🇦May 19, 2025

@Codeberg @zkat
> it feels like choosing Discord is similar to choosing GitHub, because *something is not quite right yet*.

So much this. I'm perfectly happy on IRC, but I'll also go along with Matrix.

Show threadKaterina MarchánMay 19, 2025
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Show threadraeMay 19, 2025
@zkat @Codeberg not to derail the conversation, but I'm curious, what faults did you find with matrix? As a big fan of it, I've heard people say the same thing and I've not really heard any issues beyond the occasional bug with regular messaging clients. I feel like there's something I'm missing
Show threadKaterina MarchánMay 19, 2025
@Greyq @Codeberg I’m not having this discussion right now sorry. As you say, it’s off topic
Show threadOwen RaccugliaMay 20, 2025

@Greyq I can't get too deep into it either, but I sent this to a friend with similar questions:

Matrix stuff that's bugged me, a forgiving technical user:
- Channels seem to be opt-in by default? There's a constant problem of "after joining a server, you have to find a hidden UI element to find the channels." The button to join is so hard to find I don't know where it is any more

Show threadOwen RaccugliaMay 20, 2025

@Greyq
- Android Element notification UX is terrible (I can't swipe them away, they keep getting restored unless I open the app - even if I click the "mark read" notification action. The app takes long enough to start up that I just live with dangling notifications.)

- Lots of friction around key management and session validation, would probably end up opting out of E2E to avoid channels full of "awaiting keys" message placeholders. One phone isn't verified, but thinks it is, so I can't fix it