Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Eric Wong [off-list ref] writes:

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(and I'm not going to pay extortionist .org fees to keep
 public-inbox.org when it comes up for renewal in 2023,
 maybe everyone can use Tor .onions by then :> )

Just on this tangent.  Would you be willing to keep the domain and
keep the service running, if Git Project Leadership Committee pays
the fee out of the funds we keep at Software Freedom Conservancy?

Maybe...  I'm against the *principle* of paying extortionists;
and I don't think the Git project should encourage them, either.

Promoting + developing a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for
Message-ID (and git OID) lookups to fight against centralization
would be a better use of time and funds :>

However, if EFF and other .orgs prove effective in keeping
prices reasonable then that's fine, I guess.  I personally
expect to be financially worse off in 2023 than I was in 2013
when I bought the domain, so some help there could be nice :)

The actual cost of running a service is only $20/month in VPS
hosting.  It's a business expense at the moment as I hack on
that machine for clients, and I'm trying to make public-inbox
cheaper and easier to host, too.

But, https://lore.kernel.org/git/ has professionals behind it
and is more scalable.  It's currently missing syntax
highlighting and blob regeneration because that's a PITA to
configure, though...