Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderFor personal, single-person projects I went back to a bare (git init --bare) repository on my SMB share. I tried gogs and gitea, and at some point, I encountered a bug where the cpu would spike to 100% constant load, and make my instance impossible to use. I also didn't want to run Gitlab on my NAS for performance reason. I'm pretty happy now, with one system less to manage (although I don't want to discourage anyone to have a…
Since there are so many threads already, here is a recap of the competition: Self Hosted (in order of anecdotal popularity) - Gitlab - Gitea (fork of Gogs) - Gogs - Phabricator - GitBucket - Rhodecode - Kalithea (fork of Rhodecode) - GitPrep - Allura - GitSSB - Pagure If you want hosted Git, there are many competitors, but some of the notable are - Gitlab - Attlassian BitBucket - Google Cloud Repositories - Amazon CodeCommit - Canonical Launchpad -…
For the curious, this is an open source fork of RhodeCode starting from the last version before it went business source (so 1.7.2) that popped up in July 2014. It's nice to see that they are fixing a lot of bugs now instead of code cleanup resulting from forking. It would be nice to have an easy to find page of all the releases and changelogs though.
Being working mostly in python and mercurial we choose it and are using it in production for 1-1/2 years and it's been very good so far.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 423
- Total comments
- 225
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-11 | Kallithea – A free software source code management systemFirst breakout | conductor | 102 | 40 |
| 2017-04-07 | Kallithea, a free source code management system supporting Mercurial and Git | type0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018-06-04 | GitHub open source alternative supporting git, hg, svn | dragonsh | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-06-06 | Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub | BerislavLopac | 119 | 59 |
| 2019-12-03 | Kallithea, a Free Software GitHub-Alternative Supporting Git and Mercurial | kick | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-04-06 | Kallithea – Self-hosted alternative to GitHubHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | dragonsh | 198 | 125 |