Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
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Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?10 points by ciwolex 29 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 commentsI have a few projects on Github. I am receiving a lot of spam PRs and requests from vibe coders and bots. Most of them to prop up their profiles. The stars are obviously exaggerated too.What other platforms are you using for your projects? help
I think one important factor would be still being able to interact with a community of people who care for software and would like to put genuine thoughts. Whether it be for submitting bug reports, issues, PRs or security reports. Of course other platforms are not diverse as GitHub, it would be nice to see which other platforms are attracting such people. This in turn has a higher chance of interacting with such people. Git is pretty simple to host yourself. For literally decades I've used git and gitolite to host git for me and a revolving team of developers.But if you want it to be public though where anyone can access/fork it then you have to deal with "spam". I'm not familiar with git, but can you post a read-only version publicly so others can still access all the commit history but not be subjected to pull requests? Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact