mccI wonder if archive.org could be convinced to introduce a formal, mirror-only code hosting service. Code upload and display only, no collaboration features. I know they're already hosting a lot of vcs repos (the bitbucket backups, for example) so it might not require much change at their own end to bridge to a "GitHub-alike", you'd only need an HTML code viewer (which could be generated AOT like an SSG even) and a dedicated button on the search frontend.
mccOn a related note: Is there any existing software that can act as a "static site generator" for a git repo? Like just generate the branch/code explorer pages that GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Forgejo would have, but instead of doing it dynamically you do it once and then serve static pages. The main thing that worries me about self hosting Forgejo is that a badly written "AI" crawler will find an expensive endpoint I don't know about and hammer it repeatedly. I want zero endpoints.
Kevin P. Fleming@mcc@mastodon.social This sounds similar to what Software Heritage does.