A public, self-hosted look at the repositories this Radicle seed stores and the traffic it serves: the explorer at app.radicle.at and the API at seed.radicle.at. Compiled only from the seed's own server logs and storage scans · no trackers, no cookies, no third parties.
- The network's weight is a handful of mirrored repos. The 12 largest repos (mirrors of linux, HardenedBSD, nixpkgs, godot, guix and more) hold almost half the bytes, while the typical repo is under 1 MiB.
- This seed mirrors most of the public network. It carries 7,830 repositories, about 84% of the network's 9,297 known public repositories, spread across 671 nodes, making it one of the largest public mirrors in Radicle.
- The most widely replicated repos are Radicle's own core (heartwood, radicle-explorer), with a long tail of community projects behind them.
- Most web traffic is robots, not people. Search crawlers and automated scanners are the large majority of requests; genuine human visits are a small, steady stream from 136 countries.
01Replication & network reach
Radicle is peer-to-peer: every repo can live on many nodes at once, and the more nodes carry it, the more resilient it is. This is how replication looks across the 9,297 known public repositories and 671 nodes the network currently spans.
This seed's policy is to mirror the whole network; the ~16% of public repos it does not hold are mostly the stale, abandoned and testing repos auto-pruned by radicle-seed-prune (it would otherwise sit near 99%), plus a few not-yet-fetched or unreachable ones. Most of the 671 nodes are small personal seeds; a few dozen larger seeders carry the bulk, and this one is among them. 99 repositories appear on only one node in this routing view; for those, a seed like this can be the difference between a project staying reachable and quietly disappearing.
The wider network this seed sees
The peer-to-peer network this seed can see spans 2,003 nodes, but only 671 actively announce repositories and just 42 are large public seeds carrying most of it. It leans heavily private: hundreds of nodes connect over Tor or Tailscale, and of the few exposing a public address, most sit in Germany, the US, and the rest of Europe.
Collaboration: issues & patches
Radicle collaboration is code-centric but balanced: slightly more patches than issues (roughly 1.2 to 1), and only about 9% of seeded repos carry any native collaboration. Discussion concentrates in a few actively-developed projects led by heartwood; the long tail of mirrors holds code but little in-repo activity.
Collaboration has a committed core and a long tail of drop-ins: of 805 people who have ever opened or touched an issue or patch here, only about 223 were active in the last three months and 89 in the last month. The rest contributed once or twice and moved on, the usual shape of open-source participation.
02The repositories we seed
This seed mirrors public repositories from across the Radicle network so they stay available even when their authors are offline. Every repo links to its page on app.radicle.at.
Half of all repositories are under 0.36 MiB (effectively just metadata and a few commits), while a dozen full-history mirrors of major projects carry most of the weight.
03Traffic & visitors
The seed answers two kinds of web traffic: the explorer at app.radicle.at (the pages people open) and the API at seed.radicle.at (what the explorer and other tools call). Both are dominated by automated clients.
By volume the public web surface is mostly machines: search engines indexing repos, plus a constant background of automated scanners probing for things that do not exist here. Stripped of that noise, genuine human visits are a steady few thousand a month.
04What gets browsed
Of the thousands of repos seeded, only about 168 were ever opened in the explorer. Repositories featured on the landing page draw the most attention. Click any bar to open the repo.
The featured set, led by editor integrations like radicle-vscode-extension and radicle-jetbrains-plugin, dominates explorer views by design, the most visible placement on this explorer. Switch to Organic to see what visitors discover on their own.
05Who visits
Based only on the standard User-Agent string every browser sends and the request's network origin. No fingerprinting, no accounts, no cross-site tracking.
06Speed & reliability
The explorer is a static app and serves instantly. The API is fast for normal use, with a long tail when crawlers walk the full git history of the largest mirrors.
Adding this always-on seed helps your repos and their updates propagate faster across the network. Any public repo you publish gets mirrored here too, an extra always-online copy that others can still fetch when your own node is offline. It also speeds up fetching the repos this seed already holds.
z6MkjDYUKMUeY58Vtr8dGJrHRvnTfjKWVGCBYJDVTHXsXzm5@seed.radicle.at:8776Connect once from your terminal:
rad node connect z6MkjDYUKMUeY58Vtr8dGJrHRvnTfjKWVGCBYJDVTHXsXzm5@seed.radicle.at:8776
Or make it permanent by adding it to preferredSeeds in ~/.radicle/config.json:
"preferredSeeds": [
"z6MkjDYUKMUeY58Vtr8dGJrHRvnTfjKWVGCBYJDVTHXsXzm5@seed.radicle.at:8776"
]
Support radicle.at
This is one of the oldest and largest public mirrors on the Radicle network, online since early 2024 and carrying about 84% of the network's known public repositories. It keeps projects reachable and quietly powers the explorer and API that the ecosystem and third-party tools rely on, around the clock, for free.
Running it costs real disk, bandwidth, and time. If this seed is useful to you or to the network, a small contribution keeps it healthy and growing.
♥ Donate to keep it runningEvery bit helps cover disk, bandwidth, and upkeep. Thank you for keeping Radicle resilient.
- Everything here is aggregated from the seed's own web server access logs and periodic scans of its Radicle storage. Nothing else.
- Zero tracking. No analytics scripts, no cookies, no pixels, no third-party services, no fingerprinting. The only data is what any web server records to answer a request.
- Logs are processed under GDPR: visitor IP addresses are used only transiently to group requests and map approximate country during aggregation, and are never published here. Only counts, sizes, and coarse breakdowns are shown.
radicle.at · an independent Radicle seed · last updated 29 Jun 2026 · built with open data from the node itself.