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by ragelink2 days ago |
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upvoteby colinhb1 days ago|
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Maybe something fossil-adjacent:

- amber.dev

- quarry.sh

You’ll probably need to play with gTLDs to find something that works.

Can also echo “scm” from fossil’s domain:

- amberscm.dev

Along with useX.com, Xhq.com, etc., patterns.

Of the two you have listed, I’d choose fossilforge, but would vote for an alternative TLD since .io has an expected meaning coming from GitHub.

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upvoteby hdrz2 days ago|
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You should continue with a name which is related to fossils, fossillab.io, boneyard.dev and so on…
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upvoteby dijit2 days ago|
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fossilised.dev .. maybe british spelling.

palaeontology.dev ... too awkward.

museum.dev has a sort of "this is dead" ring to it.

Ironically what fossils are stored in within a museum is referred to as a "repository"..

Well, there's only 2 hard problems in computer science right?

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upvoteby graemep1 days ago|
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The best know hosted Fossil service is https://chiselapp.com/
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upvoteby hdrz1 days ago|
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Yeah, museum sounds like dead and rot… However on my small site [1] that’s the name of the fossil repos page

[1]: https://hdrz.cc/museum

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upvoteby maccard21 hours ago|
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FYI your cert is expired.
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upvoteby selectnull2 days ago|
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> what fossils are stored in within a museum is referred to as a "repository"

I own a cute domain for that: repositoryum.com. I had the plans for it, but it's one of those that never came to a realization.

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upvoteby hecifato1 days ago|
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boneyard.dev evokes something dead but that name kinda goes hard
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upvoteby kitd1 days ago|
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"countryclub.com" - ie, a bunch of fossils :)
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upvoteby noosphr1 days ago|
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Or, hear me out, we learn to host our own shit again and stop giving all our data to $megacorp after the inevitable buyout.
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upvoteby nmz1 days ago|
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I trust more a megacorp to survive more than 5 years than a personal host, I can't tell you how many times I've gone to a personal server where something I used was hosted and its dead.
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upvoteby ragelink1 days ago|
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there's a host your own version thats available now https://fossilrepo.dev live server (demo) in fossilrepo.io which is a modern wrapper UI. There's also the standard https://fossil-scm.org/ which you can also host yourself on a $5/mo server on Hertzner or the like.
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upvoteby graemep1 days ago|
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Fossil is very easy to self host. If you already have a web server it needs maybe 10 or 15 lines of server config. If you want to avoid start up you need something to autostart/restart the server process. If you point it at a directory you can add a new repo simply by adding a Fossil file to the directory.

You can even run it on shared hosting as a CGI (never done it myself).

The only thing that took some setup was sending email notifications.

> The "opinionated / small-teams only" critique others have raised in this thread is real, and I think Fossil should own it instead of fighting it.

I agree I use Fossil for multiple personal and small projects. Anywhere I can, really. It is very simple and everything is distributed.

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upvoteby gandreani1 days ago|
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And backups. Sqlite makes it easier but no backup process is easy. You always have to backup and restore at least once to have the confidence to rely on it.

It's another (big) point towards paying someone else to host it.

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upvoteby graemep1 days ago|
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Its less of a worry given ts distributed.
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upvoteby DoctorOetker1 days ago|
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a lot of other commenters point out the dead connotation, so you could pivot the semantics and go for something like fossil.fuel? has some "oomph" to it, and represents a high energy density carrier, a feedstock that can go in many directions, oils, plastics, ...

being a software project makes the environmental connotation less important (using a different project would also cost server energy etc...) so its more clearly tongue in cheek

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upvoteby ahaferburg1 days ago|
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For the name: Use something with amber in the name.
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