LWN: Comments on "The slow death of TuxFamily"

Already moved away. Still sad to see them go.

daroc — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:50:03 +0000

I don't think this line of discussion is going to be productive; let's leave it here, please.

Already moved away. Still sad to see them go.

intelfx — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:35:01 +0000

And now you're attacking me for no reason, so I guess that's +1 score on that card.

Already moved away. Still sad to see them go.

intelfx — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:33:46 +0000

No, I'm playing the game to see how many logical fallacies I can find in yours.

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LtWorf — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:16:41 +0000

Are you playing a game to see how many logical fallacies you can fit in just a few words? I guess you're ranking quite high.

Already moved away. Still sad to see them go.

intelfx — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:47:16 +0000

> They are not friends.
>
> See how you can get the badges on from scanners like snyk only if your project is on github.

Well, if they are "not friends", then it follows that this badge only matters for "not friends", too. So why do you even care about it?

Already moved away. Still sad to see them go.

LtWorf — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:05:25 +0000

They are not friends.

See how you can get the badges on from scanners like snyk only if your project is on github. That's lockin.

Already moved away. Still sad to see them go.

PastyAndroid — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:49:11 +0000

The world is changing, including the world of FOSS. Microsoft aren't the enemy they once were to most modern FOSS users, heck for most modern FOSS users DRM software isn't an enemy either at this time. They're friends now.

It's a different age.

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ballombe — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:38:16 +0000

> It's sad to see them go, even if it is true that their relevance has become “negligible”.
Meanwhile people are flocking to MS-owned github without a second thought...

Already moved away. Still sad to see them go.

JulianGro — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:25:26 +0000

It's sad to see them go, even if it is true that their relevance has become “negligible”.
We (Overte e.V.) moved away from TuxFamily in July 2023 after they had uptime issues in the two years prior. In our case, we were already using DigitalOcean Spaces for downloads, and switched to Hetzner for web hosting and email. Nowadays, Hetzner also provides S3 compatible storage, so that would also be an option for download storage.
Of course, all of that stuff costs money, even if I could see the cost as negligible (we pay <22€ per year for the 10 GB with Hetzner).
TuxFamily did provide a one-of-a-kind service, as far as I know. Webspace, email (without SMTP), and download storage for free is pretty hard to beat. I can think of code forges like Codeberg for webhosting, but of course that doesn't include email.