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This website is open source

Chris Bongers on July 04, 2022

When I rewrote my website in Astro, I decided to make it an open source project. But let's dive into what this means and how you can contribute. ...
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Waylon Walker

Awesome work Chris. I've had mine "open" from the start and have only had a positive experience from it. I've recieved a small number of typo and link fixes, I always greatly appreciate anyone taking time to make the change for me.

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Chris Bongers

That's awesome to read!
Well I guess it's more then when it was closed right.

Or did you also find it has some negatives to it?

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Waylon Walker

The worst has been a pointless PR or two. I have not yet had a big downside.

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adriens

Thanks for having made me discover Astro

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Chris Bongers

Awesome, also happy when people discover Astro πŸ₯³

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Julia πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» GDE

That are very good reasons for making a website open source. I am sure people will be happy to contribute!

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Chris Bongers

I hope so Julia πŸ™

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Melvin Jones Repol

This is true i make my site open source too.

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Chris Bongers

Nice!
Would love to see a movement of this πŸ₯³

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Joel Buenrostro

An interesting concept for a website

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Chris Bongers

I hope people will use it to help improve the content πŸ₯³

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Molydoly

You have done a good job. Opening website to the community through Astro and GitHub for collaborative improvement is a brilliant initiative that fosters collective creativity and ensures ongoing quality enhancement.