Starting today (Dec 7, 2024), RepoTracker is rebranding to GithubTracker.
Most of the things concerning the app are already migrated and over the next weeks I'll move it completely to the new domain and add a redirect to the old one until it expires (Jan 22, 2025). More on that below...
Why?
There are two main reasons. First, I never liked the dash in the repo-tracker.com domain, it feels wrong. Some reseller is sitting on repotracker.com without using it and wants way too much money for it (really don't want to pay these clowns for doing nothing except ripping off everyone).
Originally I thought I would expand the scope of the app and also add tracking for GitLab and BitBucket repositories, but that never came to pass and virtually all open-source code lives on GitHub anyway.
The second reason is that the domain is expiring and Gandi wants 40€/year now to renew it, after removing the free mailbox and charging for that extra too. Hell no!
So I went to Cloudflare and purchased githubtracker.com for 10€/year. Hell yeah!
What's new?
I bumped the app version to v1.0.0, but there is not much new except some package upgrades, small bug fixes, style tweaks, and a new logo that I patched together with the excellent Affinity Designer app that they threw out for half price on Black Friday.
What's coming?
Probably not that much to be honest, at least for now.
I'll try to fix some long-standing bugs and improve performance, but dev time is always in short supply and the app works quite well as is (I use it almost daily myself). One thing that I have on the to-do list is to also ditch github-stats.com and incorporate the routing from GitHub repositories directly into the main app.
That's it, thanks for reading ✌🏽
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