Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists

by nalgeon • 2 years ago

121 31 2 years ago

This is awsome bc Github Gist links aren't Cool URL's and break on name changes even though repo's don't and Gist's have those hash ID's. I don't know that the Styles need be quite so on-the-nose, though I am glad to see syntax highlighting is already in.

ashryan2• 2 years ago

I dig this idea. I have the sneaking suspicion that GitHub Gists aren’t a first-class citizen of the overall GitHub product. I tried navigating to mine the other day and found myself ejecting to a search engine to find them. And then wondering if they are something I can trust to be around in the future.

I use Gists as a way to stash lists publicly. I’m curious what use cases for Gists exist beyond the obvious “here’s a snippet” (which is valuable in and of itself!).

simonw• 2 years ago

Yeah, Gists don't feel like they've had much attention in a very long time.

I still love them as a product and use them on a daily basis, and there's nothing that feels particularly missing from them, but they're clearly not something GitHub are investing a lot of effort in beyond keeping them working at the moment.

jjayj2• 2 years ago

I don't use gists. Haven't found a need I guess.

If they work and there's nothing missing, what effort would they put into them?

doakes• 2 years ago

Val town has a cool idea of making gists runnable: https://www.val.town/

sdesol• 2 years ago

At first I was like this interesting but I don't see this as more than a hobby project. Then I did some more reading and it turns out they recently raised 5.5M (seed round). I guess if they can become the next place for people to dump code for ML, I can see how they were able to raise.

Axsuul• 2 years ago

Thanks for building this! Any plans on supporting anonymous gists?

riley_dog• 2 years ago

I've been hosting an instance of OpenGist for a while now. It's been extremely solid. Kudos to the dev!

Helmut100012• 2 years ago

I think this is awesome, but I do not see the use case: Why would anybody register on my site to publish his or her gists? I would love to get my gists from Github published under my site, but for this case I would prefer a static site generator (hugo, jekyll) with a good theme for gists.

jskherman• 2 years ago

Now this had me curious. Is there someone out there who has actually created a theme/template website for a static site generator like Hugo, Zola, or Jekyll where you could use both the usual markdown and the actual code files themselves? It seems fairly doable based off the templating engines available.

On the other hand, Docker seems to be a bit overkill for something one could use a static site for instead if it's supposed to be self-hosted. It's even better security-wise. Otherwise, I wonder if one could upload a gist and have it run on the server through some unknown exploit.

Helmut100012• 2 years ago

Yes, this is what I meant. After the post above I looked for gist themes for the obvious candidates (jekyll, hugo, mkdocs), but could not find one.

dcsan• 2 years ago

if the fediverse supports posting with markdown and code syntax highlighting, what is the benefit of a standalone gist thing? - Perhaps the ability to edit/clone and update? - the anonymous dumps use case (which this doesn't support yet)

zilti• 2 years ago

I guess one neat feature is that every gist is actually also a git repository, but that's about it...

aprilnya• 2 years ago

I don’t think I would use fedi for this because it would pop up in the timelines of everyone who follows me

INTPenis• 2 years ago

This goes for both Gitlab Snippets and Github gists, but I never really wanted it to be backed by git.

In the beginning I saw it as just a convenient pastebin service associated with the git service, for single files and quick sharing.

It seems overkill to create a repo. When people make gists that are like 2-3 files they should just make a repo.

kjksf• 2 years ago

Might as well plug my adjacent tool: https://tools.arslexis.io/gisteditor/

It's a better interface for editing / creating GitHub gists.

And it's open-source: https://github.com/kjk/tools.arslexis.io/tree/main/frontend/...

Built mostly with Svelte 4 and a tiny bit of Go backend.

knocte• 2 years ago

Very nice. Nit to author: maybe redirect opengist.io to github project or to demo.opengist.io? Right now it shows the ngnix default page.

Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists

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