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.
+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:
deleted by creator
Gothub is looking for a new maintainer.
I mostly use GitHub through vscode’s terminal. They’ve got plenty of extensions/plugins for git/github
Depending on what you have a taste for, I seem to remember seeing this in Emacs:
Github isn’t slow on my devices.
Which os? There are plenty of third party apps for computer or mobile
Ofc Firefox (on any OS). It might work better with a chromium based browser but I don’t use any of them.
Why even browser? You can use native apps
You should really try the GitHub CLI, it’s amazing. I only use the GUI for tweaking settings and browsing here and there. Everything else you can do from JetBrains / Viscose native, including PRs.
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.
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.
Codeberg is great
Gitlab is quite good and used by a lot of open source developers.
