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- Welcome, i left 2 years ago, i'm surprised more haven't.
I use https://sharemygit.com to share repos around.
- Gitea installs like a Breezeby n3storm
- A vanilla git server works great too.by thrill
- So why no self-hosted GitLab then?by luciandan
- GitLab is also getting worse and worse. They're going full-in on AI and each new release is more cluttered with useless features and requires more and more resources to run smoothly. After six years self-hosting a GitLab instance for a few hundred users (among which a few dozens are quite active), I abandoned this summer and I'm currently migrating the instance to Forgejo.by p4bl0
- I was about to mention Codeberg but I saw the last two changes to the terms of use and they're basically digging themselves into the ground with so many restrictionsby oscarcp
- Is your a majority of your project LLM code?by megagpt2
- It’s like the restaurant that is cash only and refuses to accept credit cards. Like bruh, what?by whalesalad
- GitHub is going the wrong way, but there really is nothing workable for open-source projects except GitHub. I don’t want to register on all these random GitHub killers just to open an issue or PR in a random project I’ve interacted with.
For personal or team setups, any third-party service will work well.
by vladkens - > I don’t want to register on all these random GitHub killers
You don't have to; all the GitHub killers support GitHub sign on
by ModernMech - > GitHub is going the wrong way, but there really is nothing workable for open-source projects except GitHub.
Open source projects existed just fine before GitHub, and they will exist just fine if they choose to move off GitHub as well. It's not a big deal if people won't do drive by contributions any more.
by bigstrat2003 - I've had exactly zero issues hosting Forgejo. GitHub is only going to get worse.by cdrnsf
- I agree with the sentiment of the post, and Github deserves every bit of it. Tried codeberg (which uses forgejo) and I am very happy with it personally.by dabedee
- IME switching git providers is very hard, especially getting off of github. Most companies have insane numbers of integrations, automations, etc on top of GH. So yeah, its on us, but its also pretty simple algebra: does GH's downtime affect us more than the cost of switching? Most companies the answer is no.
When people ask why people aren't switching to Gitlab, ADO, Bitbucket, etc, I believe this is the reason.
by multisport - Most companies?
Do you have a source for that claim?
- I really do wonder if the disruptions caused by the outages are starting to match the disruptions caused by a migration (which at least has a foreseeable end to it, theoretically).
Like even with the "will somebody please think of the operational costs" aspect, I really do wonder if the good old lock-in extortion math actually still holds in GH's favor.
by perching_aix - Most companies aren't on GH at all, but are doing some internally hosted forge. Companies who build on GH are very much in the minority in my experience.by bigstrat2003
- I can't imagine anybody switching to ADO from GitHub. Microsoft has made clear that ADO is on life support, and are slowly stripping features out like public repos.
I look forward to when GitHub Actions has feature parity with Azure Pipelines.
by Uvix - 90% uptime is abysmal. That degree of poor performance can easily cost astounding amounts of money and/or cause secondary incidents. It's just harder to quantify than the cost of switching.by iterance
- It really is a testament to the power of mindshare and vendor lock-in. Git is GPL-licensed, the format is a de-facto standard, the commits and tags live in an on-disk format, merging and collaboration doesn't require a server, and yet somehow we still managed to end up with a centralized system with GitHub at the center.by bariumbitmap
- Maybe for big companies that irresponsibly vendor-locked themselves, but I work at a SMB (~60 employees) and we switched to Forgejo in a couple daysby monkaiju
- This year, the migration projects I have worked on were some of the most fun. Migrations have changed from the death-by-1000-cuts that they were, to the which-AI-method-to-best-ensure-100%-fidelity. So, I don't believe the "very hard" part. Obviously it would involved recreating or reshaping many features that very involved in an integration to have a disruption-free move, but I think the complexity is manageable for most companies if they put in some effort.by honr
- Btw, did anyone notice they removed access to "who starred the project" recently. You can only check your own repos, not external ones. It was very nice to find related people before.by nshm
- by Klaster_1
- I'm in the middle of a Forgejo migration myself for similar reasons. What finally pushed me over the edge was a hour long Actions outage that prevented me from pushing a hot fix for a bug to my webapp. (I relied on GH Actions to build and push an ARM Docker image.) For work that a business depends on, I can't recommend GitHub Actions. It's not just the outages that personally annoyed me, but the fact that I'm paying for it as well. So far I'm loving Forgejo and have no regrets!by JLO64
- I'm curious what you're replacing Actions with on the Forgejo side, and whether running that infra yourself feels like part of the benefit or another thing you'd rather not ownby stephenway
- What frontier model did GitHub train? All of the frontier labs scraped GitHub like they scraped everything else. While GitHub has certainly tried to profit from AI, directing ire at GitHub for frontier labs training on public code seems misplaced.by ralph84
- Microsoft owns GitHub.by saulpw
- With SourceHut banning projects that use LLMs[1], I’m looking to migrate this weekend.
While I can host Forgejo just fine[2], doing so means no one will be able to contribute to the projects, since federation isn’t a thing yet. Heck, getting contributions on SourceHut was hard enough, and it doesn’t even require people to register an account.
I might need to bite the bullet and go with GitHub. Regardless of what I think about the company and Microsoft, it’s where the people are.
[1]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/
[2]: And already do locally, as a mirror to SourceHut.
- Can't they either sign up for accounts on your Forgejo, or send you an IM to request a pull?by megagpt1