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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by notpushkin »

ashton314 wrote: post #6

Forgejo is splendid. Codeberg is a hosted instance; depending on what you’re developing it may or may not be a good fit for you. But the Forgejo stack itself is decently light-weight to self-host, very fast to use, and is easy to navigate.

> depending on what you’re developing it may or may not be a good fit for you

I think if your project is free / open source (edit: and you don’t use LLMs/AI), Codeberg is the a good starting point at least. You can move on to a self-hosted instance if you feel you’ve outgrown it, but even for larger projects I think you can get away with self-hosting just the CI runners.

And don’t forget to donate! https://donate.codeberg.org/ / https://join.codeberg.org/

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by jm4 »

I self host Forgejo on a cheap VPS with hourly borg backups to rsync.net. It's a great system and seems comparable to github, although I'm not a heavy user of actions on either platform. I do use the container registry though. It was a smooth transition and easy to install. I used the docker installation method. Forgejo is great if you don't mind hosting yourself.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by jtokoph »

vehemenz wrote: post #26

My org's GitHub Enterprise never goes down. The feature set is almost the same, though it lags a few months behind. At least you don't have to learn anything new.

My previous org’s GHE went down all the time. It couldn’t handle the CI and automation tooling hitting it as often as an org of our size needed it to. So I can totally see cloud not being able to handle the new AI scale

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by codexb »

plqbfbv wrote: post #37

To all of those proposing self-hosted GitLab: we did it for 6+ years in my company, and it's not always a smooth sailing. We had our own runners and we made it auto-upgrade across docker images daily before business start. It mostly worked really well, except those few times were a Docker upgrade had to be rolled back, or that one time the bundled pg_shared_buffers was set at 1MB by default, making schema upgrades im…

Yeah, it's mind blowing to me that GH still doesn't have a branch viewer in each repo.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by bdlowery »

notpushkin wrote: post #71
ashton314 wrote: post #6

Forgejo is splendid. Codeberg is a hosted instance; depending on what you’re developing it may or may not be a good fit for you. But the Forgejo stack itself is decently light-weight to self-host, very fast to use, and is easy to navigate.

> depending on what you’re developing it may or may not be a good fit for you I think if your project is free / open source (edit: and you don’t use LLMs/AI), Codeberg is the a good starting point at least. You can move on to a self-hosted instance if you feel you’ve outgrown it, but even for larger projects I think you can get away with self-hosting just the CI runners. And don’t forget to donate! https://donate.cod…

if you use ai to program at all you can't use codeberg.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Post by axegon_ »

bogwog wrote: post #66
axegon_ wrote: post #55

I migrated everything to codeberg several months ago (and created an annual donation schedule). I was never a big fan of github but what ultimately pushed me to ditch it was the way github was shoving copilot/chatgpt in my face without me ever asking. Codeberg has a clear stance on that and it's a stance I can totally get behind. In addition I spun up forgejo at a server at home for very critical stuff and it's aweso…

Codeberg for open source and Forgejo for private (and slop, if you're into that kind of thing) is what winners do

I'm not into that kind of stuff honestly: in my case Forgejo is for stuff I don't feel comfortable with leaving the boundaries of my apartment.
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