I'm hosting my own Forgejo instance and it's great. Coolify as well :) It's fun!
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
#72Genuinely curious here for someone who has tried self hosting git and has found it a pita to maintain...i want to know what is it that devs are flocking to other platforms and how are we sure that they won't pull all the red card signals that github is said to pull off.
Forgejo is fairly simple to run – way lighter and simpler than GitLab even. (GitLab is quite okay, too!)
If you want a hosted service, go for Codeberg. It’s run by a German non-profit (so it’ll be hard to bite and switch OpenAI-style). Only free/open source projects are accepted, though.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#73You'd be surprised how easy it is to self-host GitLab with Docker Compose, GitLab has an official "Omnibus" Docker image. No need to handicap yourself with Gitea/Forgejo/whatever, you can just use an industry-standard platform without much effort.
Hardware requirements are nowhere close to high either.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#74Anyone has suggestions for hosting open source hobby projects managed with Mercurial. Loved Bitbucket's Mercurial offering. Looking for a replacement.
Sourcehut has Mercurial support: https://hg.sr.ht/
Heptapod is a GitLab fork that adds Mercurial support: https://heptapod.net/, free for open source projects: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/foss.heptapod.net
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#75Extreme generalization, most devs aren't ditching GitHub yet.
I like GitHub and I'm not going to ditch anything, but I have to admit it's currently one of the few MS products that still holds up. Curious what it'll look like in a few years. Just in case, I've already reserved my username on Codeberg :)
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> a handful of remotely meaningful repos If there's a trend to leave a platform it won't start with the most entrenched users (largest repos). They acknowledge your concern in the article and their analysis does apply to those few who are leaving. But to be fair the title can be interpreted either way and the most reasonable read for anyone is "some of them are leaving". I'd find it clickbaity if they said "why devel…
> If there's a trend That's the point being made. Is there a trend? How do we know? There's always some repos moving between hosting providers for all kinds of reasons. The burden of proof is on the author here to show there's been an increase and they don't do that.
The early adopters are leaving. These are the people that will blaze a trail that others follow.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#77Anyone has suggestions for hosting open source hobby projects managed with Mercurial. Loved Bitbucket's Mercurial offering. Looking for a replacement.
Sourcehut has Mercurial support: https://hg.sr.ht/ Heptapod is a GitLab fork that adds Mercurial support: https://heptapod.net/ , free for open source projects: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/foss.heptapod.net
Just in time. I was about to edit my own comment to mention
https://hg.sr.ht/ that I learned of from a comment by frabcus on this post.
Thanks for links.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#78You'd be surprised how easy it is to self-host GitLab with Docker Compose, GitLab has an official "Omnibus" Docker image. No need to handicap yourself with Gitea/Forgejo/whatever, you can just use an industry-standard platform without much effort. Hardware requirements are nowhere close to high either.
What makes GitLab "industry-standard" and Forgejo not?
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#79Sentiment for/against GitHub aside... "Why X are doing Y" articles like these pretend that the premise of "X are doing Y" is true, conveniently skipping to the "Why" before proving that the premise is even accurate in any meaningful way. This is why I never buy headlines that start out with "Why". > developers are ditching Proceeds to list but a handful of remotely meaningful repos against the hundreds of thousands o…
> Proceeds to list but a handful of remotely meaningful repos against the hundreds of thousands on there
The trend is what's interesting here. Github has never been threatened by anyone, because their service was too good to bother for everyone but the most ideologically motivated.
Now their service has become so bad there's a github joke at work every time something is down or slower than it should.
Reputation is a very valuable thing, and Github has destroyed a stellar one in a few month, this is newsworthy.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#80Did we all forget that GitHub’s military-industrial complex owners over at Microsoft made sure to send the “business as usual” signal to the USG when they refused to stop helping ICE violate human rights en masse? This was during the kidnap-and-rape-kids-in-cages days and before they started a general policy of kidnapping and/or summarily executing law-abiding citizens in the street. There are more reasons now to dis…
Can’t go a day without propaganda on HN.
Everything is propaganda, including your comment and this one.