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Looking for your personal lists of Github repositories, which might be deleted from Github at some point, for whatever reason. For example, the maintainer might delete his account from Github or archive all his repositories.

A famous example of an open source project, which had trouble to continue thriving, is youtube-dl.

Which projects' repositories do you think are worth backing up?

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[–] salvadorbs 26 points 1 month ago

Nice clickbait.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most emulators, especially for recent Nintendo systems

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you have a list of Github URLs, leading to some of the most important emulators, in your view?

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Although, it'd be important to backup issues too and this'd unfortunately require a Github token.

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why do people insist on using the mainstream forges for code that is at risk for take downs? There are plenty of other forges like sr.ht, codeberg you can use. They even support the git archive command which github doesnt.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There's also https://radicle.xyz/ which seems interesting.

And https://forgejo.org/ for self hosting (codeberg uses it) it's also getting federation so forges will be able to interact with eachother too.

[–] starshipwinepineapple 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Worth mentioning for those who care- radicle is funded by radworks, basically a crypto organization. (Source: their faq)

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Damn :( Thanks for telling, i didn't know.

[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

both also great options. Trying to remember if radicle the one i archived in my notes for further investigation into integrating into my compute platform.