Alternative github frontends?
Github has become more bloated, slower and more user-hostile with each update (just like all other big corp platforms). SPA navigation slow like hell, the "new" file viewer/browser is hardly usable in my opinion, code search does not work without login, etc. So are there any good alternative FE where the following work (read only mode is enough):
- Basic git stuff like commits, branches, tags, etc
- File browser
- Code search
- Issues
- Pull requests
- Conversations
- Wiki
For file browsing and searching I know the github1s.
In run a personal instance of forgejo, love it.
Everything I want regarding version control and workers. And more lightweight on the frontend side.
https://forgejo.org/
+1 for Forgejo. Runs butter smooth even on not so high-end machines. You can even mirror your GitHub repos.
Plus: It is not owned by a for-profit organization.
I already self host my git server, I'm looking for an alternative front-end to browse github (because a lot of open source stuff still lives on it).
GotHub seems to display basic GitHub stuff decently well.
https://gh.whateveritworks.org/
This looks promising, but unfortunately the advertised just replace github.com with some alternative host doesn't work. I can't check the issues, wiki, etc, all pages give me error (except main repo url), eg:
I mostly use GitHub through vscode's terminal. They've got plenty of extensions/plugins for git/github
I recently found https://github-wiki-see.page (Source) for wikis. It has the contents of the wikis with basic formatting, so it works, but it's not made to be a frontend.
Gitlab is quite good and used by a lot of open source developers.
I think you’re asking for alternative front ends to git, rather than GitHub?
I’m not sure if you want to retain access to Issues, Actions, Discussions and everything else on GitHub, but through another interface. Or if you’re asking to make a clean break from that data and ecosystem.
If it’s the former, then I think it’s either the web app (which you don’t like), or the CLI (gh). If it’s the latter, then I think any of the other options mentioned by others will do.