Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

(radicle.dev)

89 points | by KolmogorovComp 3 hours ago

7 comments

  • josh-sematic 2 hours ago
    Love to see it. Unlike tangled.org this is local-first and has a solid story around private repos. I’m bullish on distributed forges in general, but I’m all for experimentation in figuring out exactly what that looks like.
  • h1watt 1 hour ago
    Radicle is really underrated, especially when working with agents. I find it a joy to use for my agentic workflows.

    If there's purely an agentic forge one day, it's likely going to be a distributed one, with cryptographic identities and signed artifacts by default.

  • vaylian 2 hours ago
    I noticed that they moved to a different domain last month: https://radicle.dev/2026/04/23/domain-move
    • satvikpendem 37 minutes ago
      .xyz and similar domains are often blocked by ISPs due to higher than usual rates of spam from domains using that TLD.
      • deaton 4 minutes ago
        Makes sense. Usually if you want a 99 cent registration, .xyz is whats available.
  • bfrog 51 minutes ago
    radicle is awesome and Just Works from what I've tried of it
  • minraws 2 hours ago
    The more I have been using git and building my own tooling and services around it for usage, I have figured out that something like radicle feels like the right/better solution, definitely better than what github is atm.

    There are rough edges and the seeding thing is a bit mehhh. And honestly there are a bunch of things I would do differently but I like the spirit of things.

    Not sure where the authors of the project stand, but it's fun to see them make progress.

    • adastra22 0 minutes ago
      What are the things you would do differently?
    • endiangroup 1 hour ago
      AD: We're definitely interested in hearing about the rough edges and opinions! Feel free to post on our Zulip [^1] if you haven't already :).

      [^1]: https://radicle.zulipchat.com/

  • esafak 1 hour ago
    How well does it hold up under load? What are the CI and PR stories?
    • h1watt 1 hour ago
      Their CI take is early but promising: https://radicle-ci.liw.fi/
      • jayd16 4 minutes ago
        This just describes a watcher service that kicks jobs off on an external CI system and logs the results? Not much more detail than that.

        Gitlab and Github have pages and pages going over the domain language used to configure the job triggers. Jobs can trigger other jobs either in response to completion or as a dependency etc etc.

        I would say these radicle-ci designs as they are now are actually quite rudimentary. That's perfectly fine for an early project but at this point I think you have to say that they won't have a CI system ready for quite some time.

  • einpoklum 1 hour ago
    I like this idea a lot! I need to find people to try it with, though, which is not so easy with GH being so popular :-(

    Some nitpicks:

    * What is with the forced serif font on the website?

    * Does this support other version control systems? Like mercurial, SVN, pijul, etc.?

    • endiangroup 1 hour ago
      AD: The website is currently being redesigned, I suspect we'll have it up in the next few weeks.

      No it doesn't currently support other VCS's but we have planned for that possibility in future!

      • esafak 23 minutes ago
        VCS agnosticism would be a selling point.