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Note: If you use any form of AI-assisted coding tools, your project breaks Codeberg TOS
Perhaps you should stop relying on AI then...
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Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
#222Has anyone tried Tencent CNB? It offers generous free quotas. https://cnb.build
Anything with Tencent on it is a no for me.
Why, would you please share?
For me it's usually a green-flag, since it automatically means they optimized for high-scalability first, as their userbase is gargantuous!
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#223Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
#224Not sure if someone mentioned it already but I also used bitbucket in the past and found it very easy to use with a similar offering as github.
I like bitbucket too, it's been really awesome and clean. No idea why everyone favored GitHub, but I had to have accounts on both for university and work
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
#225If you want to try something a little bit more off the beaten path, https://gitworkshop.dev/ is a code forge built on nostr
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#226https://tangled.org ! Founder/CEO here. We're a new forge building things from the ground up, and are fully federated -- you can host your git repos on your own infra, along with the CI runners. We've also got a pretty neat set of features (if I may say so myself): stacked PRs, Nix-based CI (if you want it), and a fully open protocol ( https://atproto.com ) to for you and your agents. Happy to answer any questions.
I love jj and am a fan of the ideas of AT protocol, so tangled has been on my radar for a while. Last I checked though, it sounded like it was much better suited for open source code, not private repositories. Is that still the case?
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#227To 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…
ex-GitLabber here, and yes this is a pretty common scenario. GitLab as a product is pretty good, however GitLab Inc, is not great at supporting the broader community especially the SMB-Mid tier self-hosted users. (If you're big enterprise you'll get white glove support)
It's a bummer because they had so much potential to dethrone GitHub a few years ago but really missed the opportunity to position themselves as a viable alternative. That said I still use gitlab.com for my personal projects over anything owned by Microsoft.
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7. Do you want the most contributions? I hate to admit it, but GitHub has a massive community. I’ve personally seen a project leave it and then contributions dropped significantly.
Having people personally go out of the way for a little bit of friction tells you how valuable, and perhaps, serious these people are. I'd rather have that group of people contributing to my projects than fly by night agents that just shit all over the floor and expect treats for doing so.
Contributions aren't just commits/prs. It's also opening issues. The harder it is to provide feedback, the more likely users are going to seek a different library or tool, and depending on the actual objective of releasing or publishing code, that is not ideal.
I do agree on the fly by night agents, especially since so much is actually just agents acting on behalf of folks who just spam whatever permissions are requested in Claude/Codex.
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Note: if your reason for switching is purely uptime, you will be sorely disappointed with codeberg Their own site reports the 2 week uptime at 1 nine https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg and I suspect if you use the (really terrible) across-all-product-offerings uptime methodology that people love to post for github it would be a 0 nines overall service.
The link you provided has shown a nearly perfect uptime. Your statement doesn't reflect the proof. Personally I have never had a single issue with Codeberg's uptime. Are you trying to argue that GitHub's is better for some reason (when it objectively is not)?
The link provided shows "Uptime (336 hours): 98.76%". That's one nine of uptime for fourteen days.