Is it really soulless? It seems like it solves a real problem: many Gitea instances are very small. The devs are passionate about their work and they are all working toward improving the software. So what if it's a copycat? GitHub could be argued to be a copycat of SourceForge. Gitea/forgefriends offers new features and improvements over GitHub. Gitea is as useful as GitHub for hosting a git repo with a web interface, but the federation aspect makes Gitea also a social site (much like GitHub).
As for the logo, the line in the middle is the "string" for the tea bag. It is a different size because the actual logo is not part of the string, so the distinction must be made.
> This is woke IT, as long as it is decentralised it is somehow better than other software no matter how crapy the UX.
As someone who has used Gitea in the past, it is wonderful for it's goal of running a Git server with a webUI. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
> And please don't tell me it is open source software and I can contribute something, like I have time for that. Just take my money and shut up instead of, you know, using my tax money for stuff I don't care about. Thanks for listing to my TED talk.
If you're not willing to work toward fixing something, then stop complaining about it.
As for the logo, the line in the middle is the "string" for the tea bag. It is a different size because the actual logo is not part of the string, so the distinction must be made.
> This is woke IT, as long as it is decentralised it is somehow better than other software no matter how crapy the UX.
As someone who has used Gitea in the past, it is wonderful for it's goal of running a Git server with a webUI. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
> And please don't tell me it is open source software and I can contribute something, like I have time for that. Just take my money and shut up instead of, you know, using my tax money for stuff I don't care about. Thanks for listing to my TED talk.
If you're not willing to work toward fixing something, then stop complaining about it.