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.
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
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.
Depending on what you have a taste for, I seem to remember seeing this in Emacs:
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.