alt Hacker NewsI tried codeberg, used it a year, then early this year in all their wisdom codeberg decided to show adverserial random text instead of my repo, reporteldly to mess up llm training to user agents they weren't sure were human.
Codeberg had one job, serve my repo, it didn't do that, when brought up, I was told it was a feature not a bug, they could maybe whitelist me but that wasn't my problem, it was that random people got totally blocked or from accessing the repo. I moved back to github.
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codeberg's one job gets interfered with by freeloaders hammering expensive views (like git blame) inconsiderately.
Sounds like a feature. I didn't think Codeberg would have the balls to do something like it. I think I'm sold.
That's the reason I left as well. I complained, was told I need to drop the attitude, or leave.
so I left.
must be harder than I think running a src forge
Is your complaint about Anubis? I see the "checking if you are human" kind of text too when going to codeberg, but it is usually only a second or two. It is because I run a bit of obfuscation and resistance to browser finger printing.
But you find seeing the text for a couple of seconds too annoying to use codeberg? Maybe it is more than 2 seconds for you?
Everyone has their views on what is acceptable in the world and what they will put up with. Just, to my point of view, I think codeberg is trying to fight the good fight in keeping llms from crawling their website.