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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you’re looking for an alternative to perforce check out ark-vcs.com, there’s a high probability you’ll find it interesting.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Check ark-vcs.com, if you like centralized vcs you may like it.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ark wants to make it so that you don’t need UGS. That’s why it has concept of stable builds, build flags to get information about your builds right on the changelist history. It’s also planned to have artefacts, so that you can have for example build machines do builds for certain team members.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In case you haven't seen it yet, check out ark-vcs.com, you may find it interesting.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Check out ark-vcs.com, it may be interesting for you.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It is currently in closed beta, if you'd like to try it please reach out! ark-hub.com

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Tired of Git / Git Hub? Want to bring sanity and performance to your version control? Introducing Ark HUB! It is a spartan version control hosting solution for Ark VCS, aimed at high performance / reliability, currently supporting private repositories.

Welcome to Ark Hub, an official cloud service from the people behind Ark VCS. It is meant as a fair take on cloud services, so we do things differently.

Ark Hub's goal is to run high performance and availability Ark servers for those not interested in shelf hosting.

All servers come with 5GB for free. There is no price per user, the cost is purely based on extra storage. Ark licenses still apply, so if you have annual revenue / funding above €200.000, you'll need to get a business license.

If at any point you decided you want to self host, a zip with your server will be provided.

Your data is yours. There are no partners to Ark Hub nor any kind of AI training.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm not saying you shouldn't develop clis or that you should always use UI, they are a useful feature and you may prefer that workflow, I mean it shouldn't be the driving development of any tool with complex information, it should be a stripped down version of the UI version.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Same with showing state. Imagine if htop was done as a set of cli commands, it would be horrible experience.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And it prevents you from doing things that cli just isn't made to support well. For example, in my vcs somebody can request the lock from somebody else and that gets brought up as an in app notification, you can't do such systems gracefully with cli, it's just too different.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's not just that, it's for example not having access to state, because the cli has a do-thing() api, and you can't get a way to see the progress for example. It's quite a big problem with UIs built on top of cli, and then you have the UI showing just a random thinking animation.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

That's not how it works. When you have cli developed as the main target, you expose the things that make sense to it, because you're not even thinking about UI. I'm not saying you can't then expose these in cli, but it requires a feedback loop that generally is not there.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

because cli is always a subset of gui.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is because of the development paradigm ppl follow, which is a bad one. Apps like Git get developed cli first and then UI is bolted on top. Something built this way cannot be fast nor provide you with good feedback loops. Apps should be done gui first, and then cli is a view of it

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you're interest in centralized version controls, check out ark-vcs.com.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Check ark-vcs.com, you may find it interesting.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Agree, unfortunately it's the business model these days. That's why Ark is the way it is, because it's how I'd like to be treated as a customer. Pro self hosting, no mandatory cloud services, easy to migrate, free for indies and perpetual licenses for businesses.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thanks. Like Ark, the cloud version will be an unconventional approach. It will be dedicated hardware with NVME disks and ECC RAM. The goal is to provide high performance / uptime servers. It will have 5GB free storage, and then you pay for extra storage, not per user.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'd recommend you checking ark-vcs.com which I'm working on. Soon there will be a cloud option available.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Check ark-vcs.com. If you have any questions let me know.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Check ark-vcs.com. Looking at what info is out for Lore, it's probably a nightmare for smaller developers.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I have been working on ark-vcs.com, give it a check, it may be up your alley.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you need to work with binaries, I highly recommend you get away from Git. Every team I know using git-lfs eventually runs into issues, and the bigger the team the more often it happens. Check out ark-vcs.com and live a happy life.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ark VCS 1.1.2 is out! This release brings a new window to find shelves, but it also can be used to search committed changelists. ark-vcs.com #gamedev

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Séb @sebdegraff.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

YESSS! This is the baseline latency we should expect from a CI pipeline. Nice to see what can be done when you're in control and not github actions or whatever. (The time it takes for the little package icon to turn white or red is the duration my VPS takes to compile and run a trivial c file)

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

On top of that, from the same GUI application, you can then perform maintenance to free memory / disk resources, for both the client and the server.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

And these get automatically sent out to the clients during operation, so you never get caught off guard about a disk being full.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It allows you to set limits for storage usage, and warnings for low free disk space.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

But it doesn't stop there, this carries over to the server too. You quite often need cli commands - some times ran on the server machine - to get this kind of data, but with Ark it's all accessible from the client GUI in real time.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Quite often when using tools you don't really get enough information about what system resources it is using. This is something that specially bugs me when using resource heavy apps, so from the next version of Ark VCS it tracks all its resources in real time. #gamedev

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Perforce has a lot of problems but they aren’t really the users fault, they are design flaws and the fact that it was made to have people that manage it full time to handle all the bumps on the road. I’d recommend you trying ark-vcs.com, it’s far more pleasant to work with than perforce.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thanks! Yes you can import a GIt repo, but atm the built in importer only supports 1 branch to import (manually you can add more branches but it takes some work, if you’d want to do that ping me and I’ll help you) ark-vcs.com/documentatio...

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Git é uma má ferramenta para a grande maioria dos developers, o seu use case mais válido é quando tens realmente desenvolvimento distribuído (e.g. open source). Para tudo o resto - especialmente com binários -, sistemas centralizados têm muito mais benefícios. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnI...

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Ark 1.0 - Version Control is about to change

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The problem is that this breaks lifetime and connection between both, it creates another point of technical complexity, maintenance. You ideally want to have everything under the same roof, and almost always centralized www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnI...

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Ark 1.0 - Version Control is about to change

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm biased, but I recommend Ark VCS bsky.app/profile/nafo... On the why it is better than Git / Perforce, I'd invite you to check out the interview I gave last year Git timestamp: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te2g... Perforce timestamp: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te2g...

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Check out Ark VCS bsky.app/profile/nafo...

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

That is a good question. Ark VCS 1.0 was recently released bsky.app/profile/nafo...

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you want centralized VCS like perforce but that doesn't require a degree to manage, you may want to check out Ark VCS bsky.app/profile/nafo...

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In case you're into developing game and not managing VCS, I'd invite you to check out Ark VCS bsky.app/profile/nafo...

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm working on Ark VCS, just hit 1.0 recently. It's a centralized VCS, focusing on performance and ease of use. It doesn't require any subscriptions / cloud services, you can self host, it's free for indies and has a friendly permanent license model for companies bsky.app/profile/nafo...

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In case you don't want to have pain, I've released Ark VCS 1.0 recently bsky.app/profile/nafo...

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Ark VCS (think like an indie contender for the Perforce crown) just hit 1.0, and by the end of this video I was hooting and hollering Yeah I doubt I'll use this on current Unreal project cus (Unreal has tight links to Perforce) but next project? Oh hot damn mebs yes www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnI...

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Ark 1.0 - Version Control is about to change

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Just recently hit version 1.0 bsky.app/profile/nafo...

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Séb @sebdegraff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

looked a bit more into how Ark VCS has evolved, and there are really cool features! For example you can have your CI system annotate changelists (commits) with "build flags" (really build status). That will show a little icon next to the commit that can be clicked to open the corresponding build.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thanks! Glad you liked it ;) Atm working on Ark Hub that will allow teams that are interested in Ark but don't want to manage their server to get going quite easily.

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Anders Elfgren 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG @srekel.net · 27/04/2026

Here are the cool Ark VCS icons from my post yesterday: You can specify path rules in Ark that map to names and icons, so when you're looking at the history you can easily see which commits have certain types of content. It's mostly a fun thing for now but I think it can become quite useful. :)

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