Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists

Might as well plug my adjacent tool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.arslexis.io&#x2F;gisteditor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.arslexis.io&#x2F;gisteditor&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s a better interface for editing &#x2F; creating GitHub gists.<p>Login with GitHub, get a list of gists, get a full blown CodeMirror-based editor. Preview for markdown files.<p>And it&#x27;s open-source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kjk&#x2F;tools.arslexis.io&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;src&#x2F;gisteditor">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kjk&#x2F;tools.arslexis.io&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;...</a><p>Built mostly with Svelte 4 and a tiny bit of Go backend.

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.<p>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!).

This goes for both Gitlab Snippets and Github gists, but I never really wanted it to be backed by git.<p>In the beginning I saw it as just a convenient pastebin service associated with the git service, for single files and quick sharing.<p>It seems overkill to create a repo. When people make gists that are like 2-3 files they should just make a repo.

I&#x27;ve been hosting an instance of OpenGist for a while now. It&#x27;s been extremely solid. Kudos to the dev!

This is awsome bc Github Gist links aren&#x27;t Cool URL&#x27;s and break on name changes even though repo&#x27;s don&#x27;t and Gist&#x27;s have those hash ID&#x27;s. I don&#x27;t know that the Styles need be <i>quite</i> so on-the-nose, though I am glad to see syntax highlighting is already in.

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.

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

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.

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&#x2F;clone and update? - the anonymous dumps use case (which this doesn&#x27;t support yet)