I have my repos on Codeberg and one of the 'disadvantages' is that, well, it's a non-profit, so I genuinely don't want to waste their resources.
They ask you to only host open-source repos there, meaning that using it for backups of shitty personal projects, even if I would throw in an open-source license, is just out of the question for me.

And that has weirdly been a blessing in disguise. Like, if it's not useful for humanity to see, do I really care to keep it around forever?

And I've had three projects now where I felt an obligation to push them over the finish line of actually making them a useful open-source project. Which had me iron out some of the usability shortcuts I took, made me learn a good amount of code quality stuff and of course, just feels good to complete.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, Codeberg is a non-profit. I would say if it's just a few kilobytes/megabytes of code, upload it and donate $10. That should be enough to store that for decades.

I sometimes look for small stuff. Boilerplate code, how other people configure stuff that isn't well documented, niche interest stuff even if it's not finished. Sometimes stuff like that is useful.

[–] araozu@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

That's why I host all my shitty unfinished projects in a Gitea instance in my VPS. Now they actively cost me money and I feel (a tiny bit) more incentivized to do so something with them!