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Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Post by jorisw »

Cider9986 wrote: post #8

Why don't open source alternatives just copy the UI to make it easier to switch? Everyone knows the GitHub UI and it's intuitive. I'm happy to get more privacy and freedom, you don't have to make a worse design just to be different. Fluxer figured this out and they're the best discord replacement imo. https://fluxer.app/

> copy the UI

Good luck. The amount of features and screens on GitHub are vast aside from just those code / issues / PRs tabs.

Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

Cider9986 wrote: post #8

Why don't open source alternatives just copy the UI to make it easier to switch? Everyone knows the GitHub UI and it's intuitive. I'm happy to get more privacy and freedom, you don't have to make a worse design just to be different. Fluxer figured this out and they're the best discord replacement imo. https://fluxer.app/

I think they have the same interface. Pull requests are renamed to merge requests, that's all the difference I see. Wait for github to reshuffle the ui in a redesign churn.

Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Post by hambos22 »

It's been 9 months since I ditched Github.

Currently I self-host Gitea [0], use its registry for Docker, NPM etc and act runners [1] for github actions alternative, everything secured under tailnet.

I'm extremely satisfied with that setup. It is batteries included & fire and forget.

Now I use Github only as backup by mirroring my self hosted repos.

[0] https://gitea.com

[1] https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner

Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Post by onesandofgrain »

hambos22 wrote: post #24

It's been 9 months since I ditched Github. Currently I self-host Gitea [0], use its registry for Docker, NPM etc and act runners [1] for github actions alternative, everything secured under tailnet. I'm extremely satisfied with that setup. It is batteries included & fire and forget. Now I use Github only as backup by mirroring my self hosted repos. [0] https://gitea.com [1] https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-ru…

You use github as a backup, why bother self-hosting then?

Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Post by etdznots »

jopsen wrote: post #18
onion2k wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not even hitting 1 nine at the moment - https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

I object! The dashboard clearly says 89.15% uptime! Who says nines need to be leading?

With enough precision in the time metric there are infinitely many nines!

Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Post by etdznots »

rob wrote: post #13

People are going to copy GitHub the way people copied Facebook… how is "Threads" doing again?

Not good but that’s unsurprising since Thread’s value proposition is indistinguishable from twitter’s. Mastadon and bluesky seem to have healthy userbases though

Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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Post by n4r9 »

onesandofgrain wrote: post #25
hambos22 wrote: post #24

It's been 9 months since I ditched Github. Currently I self-host Gitea [0], use its registry for Docker, NPM etc and act runners [1] for github actions alternative, everything secured under tailnet. I'm extremely satisfied with that setup. It is batteries included & fire and forget. Now I use Github only as backup by mirroring my self hosted repos. [0] https://gitea.com [1] https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-ru…

You use github as a backup, why bother self-hosting then?

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