With Glitch shutting down, would the team consider open-sourcing it so the community can self-host or learn from it?
Yes! I would love this!
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That would be super cool, but won’t be possible due to both it being too old (we were in the process of heavy modernization when this all went down) as well as boring old business legal reasons.
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I didn’t know legal stuff could affect sharing code…
Just so you know, we wouldn’t care.
There are so many ways in which legal reasons can pop up. I wish we’d open sourced the code before all this so we wouldn’t be hamstrung by it, but that ship has sailed.
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If you’re running out of money isn’t it possible to just try and scale down the free plan, start a kickstarter, or just use this time away to make a new version of Glitch.
Please man, because there’s literally no platform like Glitch because like I said in my other posts Glitch takes off a lot from Scratch where it’s basically centered around a community being able to post and share projects and remix them. And that’s what makes it so unique and fun to be on.
At least try to convince your boss to consider it. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, but ya still got time. Please…
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Would be cool, but I don’t think they’ll do it. As they said, legal reasons might pop up alongside other factors, and I’m sure that Fastly (parent company now) isn’t interested in dedicating more resources towards a business that is already losing money and is in the process of being shut down.
I don’t get a say here. The announcement to shut down hosted Glitch apps was not the start of the process, it was the end: I dislike it just as much as (if not more than) all of you, but this is what’s happening.
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it isn’t that hard to open-source code tho.
maybe under a more restrictive license? like no commercial use
we just want to learn from the code, it being old wouldn’t change much 
Lots of modern (self) hosting projects to be found on the various git forges (github, gitlab, forgejo, etc), I can recommend looking around and finding a cool one there instead, because code being old is a problem: if you’ve never looked at a complex hosting codebase, the absolute worst thing you can do for yourself is learning outdated tooling or even flat out no longer supported tooling. It just makes it that much harder to apply what you’re learning to your own projects (or even your job). You’re basically learning “the wrong way to do things” as your first exposure, which is always a bad plan: unlearning the first thing you learned is much harder than building on the first thing you learned.
Also, be careful with statements like “it isn’t that hard to open-source code”, it can be insanely hard to open source code, especially large codebases with many moving parts, which can be prohibitively expensive to open source purely in terms of how many hours it’ll take. That work has to happen as part of regular maintenance, or the project has to have started as open source to begin with. It’s not a matter of just blanking out the environment variables and calling it a day, so much work needs to go into open sourcing a large code base.
And of course to shortcut any further discussion of this: Glitch will not be open sourced, that decision was already made as part of the shutdown process, whether any of us like that or not.
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I am wondering if anyone can reference me to any web-based hosting programs like GitHub. I am looking for a program where I don’t need to install any app I just want to edit the code and do everything in the program on the website. I already am using GitHub but I cant use GitHub anymore. Thank you - Luke Witt
Also quick question, will this support forums close down too?
Please don’t use this thread for that, there are other threads specifically for those questions =)
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i don’t think there’s any one quite like glitch tho, with a built-in editor, playlists, users, teams, etc…