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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo (code.ffmpeg.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/46522263

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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I guess I'm out of the loop: why do ppl hate forgejo?

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah, this is news to me. I think Codeberg runs on Forgejo, and just the other day people were singing its praises when GitHub became part of Microsoft's AI team. This feels like a sudden shift.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Another git repository that is not hosted on itself?
    Seems like a weird choice.

    That's like the CEO from Microsoft going on stage with a MacBook.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Codeberg is a service. Forgejo is a platform.

    It's more like how a warehouse company doesn't build its own forklifts.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Forgejo is developped on Codeberg, which runs on Forgejo

    Codeberg is the "demo" Forgejo instance is where they develop the software (Forgejo)

    Forgejo is a fork of Gitea which is pretty well known. They forked out of fear because Gitea got bought and is now a for-profit iirc

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Probably just the weird name. It makes it feel like someone’s weekend personal project.

    I use it to self-host my own code and it works great, I’m totally moved off GitHub now.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Personally uaong forgejo myself and it has been smooth sailing for ages! This is the first time ive ever seen people taking a stance against it, though the ones in the comments sidnt seem to have a good argument.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I don't even know how to pronounce it. Forge Joe? For Gay Ho?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Any product name that needs a voice file to explain itself is a bad name 🤦 what were they thinking?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Let me guess: You think everyone needs to speak english?

    Imagine seething at words in a language you don't speak because you don't speak it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Your assumptions betray you. I speak 4 languages fluently/natively and two-three more poorly. English is not my native language.

    This is not about language, but about marketing. Thank you.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    "i, in all of my infinite wisdom and knowledge, knower of four languages, cant pronounce word therefore bad marketing" 😭

    seriously why do you care so much about the marketing ability of a foss tool? they arent selling it?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Seems to me that you are the seething one, not me. Taking a walk might improve your mood.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Ubuntu: Super marketable, everyone can pronounce it, no confusion, easily understandable by four language knowing people
    Gentoo: So easy to remember, marketing geniuses
    Godot: Inpossible to pronounce incorrectly. Children are born knowing how to say it. Exemplars of universal human communication.
    Forgejo: What were they even thinking? So bad. Who can even understand it without a dedicated audio file? People who know four languages struggle with it. A failure.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't call that "seething", the project is targeting an English speaking audience (English is the source, other languages are translation targets), effectively no one is a native speaker of Esperanto, and it's usage is small enough that someone could quite possibly never encounter the language.
    Bad project names are common enough in programming and open source, and complained about, that I wouldn't jump right to xenophobia as the reason someone might complain that a project picked a name knowing it would be difficult to pronounce.

    They can name it whatever they want, but getting that angry that someone didn't recognize a word in an anglisiced spelling of a word from a niche language is uncalled for.

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