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       2025-07-26T22:36:58Z
       
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       This article by Simon Tatham could have been written about ./play.it code hosting decisions:https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/git-no-forge/ — Git without a forgeThere is almost nothing in there that we are in disagreement with. And unlike Simon, we think these things after having hosted a GitLab forge for many years, so that can’t be a decision due, even in part only, to inertia.We actually switched to a "no forge" setup because of working with (despite? against?) forges for so long. So much time has been lost because of that. So much energy. So much motivation.Many ./play.it features never got developed, many ./play.it bugs never were fixed, because instead we had to maintain a forge, and comply with its stupidly bureaucratic imposed workflow. We are not going back. Not even to the current trendy forges like Forgejo or SourceHut.