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

Post by jorisw » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #108

jorisw wrote: post #81

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Except the article doesn't prove any trend

Here you have (albeit small) proof of some sort of trend: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=codeberg%2Cforgejo%2Cgit... Still, doesn't come close to popularity of GitHub itself today ( https://trends.google.com/explore?q=codeberg%2Cforgejo%2Cgit... ), but I think the trend of moving away from GitHub is clear both in data and sentiment, both qualitative and quantitative.

Post by gortok » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 11:10 AM UTC

karel-3d wrote: post #99

jorisw wrote: post #15

Sentiment 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…

howtogeek is low-effort content mill, it's just upvoted here because of the headline, there is 0 actual effort in the article

Post by AznHisoka » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

stymaar wrote: post #79

jorisw wrote: post #15

Sentiment 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…

Post by dijksterhuis » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 11:16 AM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #78

qweqwe14 wrote: post #73

You'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?

Post by jjgreen » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

stanac wrote: post #112

wseqyrku wrote: post #96

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> This way github is a "dumb backup" Eh? What GH department do you work in anyways? Training Data Sustainability?

I don't understand your question. If I was working for GH would I be selfhosting forgejo? edit: If you think I sound like an LLM, I guess that is what happens when most of your interactions in English language are with LLMs.