Radicle does still have some issues with regards to performance.
they aren't kidding, https://radicle.network/nodes/rad.hardenedbsd.org just had the spinner for me. That makes me suspect that this system has the same problem as bittorrent/ipfs in that my browser needs to contact the DHT, wait for some volunteer to ack the DHT request to find actual peers, and only then would any content show up
Our rad.hardenedbsd.org is on a pretty slow server.
Why not use a more lightweight forge than Radicle in that case?
(You can even host your repos on Codeberg, which is a completely free and open forge that is maintained by a non-profit, assuming you don't care about self-hosting.)
We self-host everything in support of our human rights infrastructure work. We provide Tor Onion Service endpoints for all public services. We tried Gitea years ago and it performed absolutely horribly to the point of being 100% useless.
One week in, Radicle seems to be performing very well with regards to our infrastructure. It's just that radicle-httpd acts a bit slow. radicle-httpd isn't absolutely required for a complete Radicle experience--it's mainly only there to enable us to download ports distfiles from Radicle.
I appreciate prioritizing decentralized distribution of operating system source code, especially in the face of mandatory identification laws.
Ditto. I hope that a relevant project being on Radicle will help the Radicle devs iron out performance issues. Fingers crossed for everyone involved.
For those, who like me, are not familiar with Radicle:
So you can finally torrent left-pad ;)
they aren't kidding, https://radicle.network/nodes/rad.hardenedbsd.org just had the spinner for me. That makes me suspect that this system has the same problem as bittorrent/ipfs in that my browser needs to contact the DHT, wait for some volunteer to ack the DHT request to find actual peers, and only then would any content show up
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rad.hardenedbsd.orgis on a pretty slow server. Your timeouts are likely due to our less-than-shoestring budget servers.Why not use a more lightweight forge than Radicle in that case?
(You can even host your repos on Codeberg, which is a completely free and open forge that is maintained by a non-profit, assuming you don't care about self-hosting.)
We self-host everything in support of our human rights infrastructure work. We provide Tor Onion Service endpoints for all public services. We tried Gitea years ago and it performed absolutely horribly to the point of being 100% useless.
One week in, Radicle seems to be performing very well with regards to our infrastructure. It's just that
radicle-httpdacts a bit slow.radicle-httpdisn't absolutely required for a complete Radicle experience--it's mainly only there to enable us to download ports distfiles from Radicle.Thanks for sharing! Good to know. If anything, I'd have expected Gitea to be much faster than Radicle but I guess that's why you always measure. :)
You’re wrong.
Your browser speaks with a http server which should have the git repos available.