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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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That's what I said, but indeed in a very bad way :)

No, it's not what you said. Gitea is a fork of Gogs. Forgejo is a fork of Gitea. Codeberg folks forked Gitea to create forgejo.

"Forgejo was created in October 2022 after a for profit company took over the Gitea project. It exists under the umbrella of a non-profit organization, Codeberg e.V. and is developed in the interest of the general public."

https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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You might want to consider checking out GitLab and Gitee.

Gitee is Chinese. If you're in the US, it's considered a risk because it's Chinese. But people outside the US will not care.

That’s terrible; this shouldn’t be a barrier to using technology.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

edit: totally wrong

I think they mean the "just" in "Do you just want to host repositories?", implying that it's never "just" hosting repositories, and the needs will continue to grow beyond what the simple solution offers.

> the needs will continue to grow beyond what the simple solution offers.

If they do, then migrate to a provider that offers what you need at that time. It's not like adding a new remote is hard.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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for local Canadian based workflows that want sovereignty, I recommend https://about.worktree.ca

Note, currently worktree is just wrapping OVH as their “sovereign cloud”: https://docs.worktree.ca/sovereignty/

I was wondering when reading their sovereignty docs why I wouldn’t just use OVH as it is a French company instead of a USA based company, and lo and behold they are just reselling OVH.

I have used OVH personally and it has pretty good prices, but over aggressive DoS protection. Some of my workloads were shut down because OVH internal tools decided that what I was doing must have been a DoS.

As a Canadian I welcome a Canadian owned cloud provider, but it is a huge endeavour to build that platform up from scratch.

It does seem kind of weird that they are building both a CI system and a cloud, seems like they should pick one.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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for local Canadian based workflows that want sovereignty, I recommend https://about.worktree.ca

Note, currently worktree is just wrapping OVH as their “sovereign cloud”: https://docs.worktree.ca/sovereignty/ I was wondering when reading their sovereignty docs why I wouldn’t just use OVH as it is a French company instead of a USA based company, and lo and behold they are just reselling OVH. I have used OVH personally and it has pretty good prices, but over aggressive DoS protection. Some of my workloads were shu…

Also they are using a home baked S3 compatible storage system and longhorn for block storage: https://docs.worktree.ca/updates/post-mortems/2026-07-20

I haven’t the slightest clue why they didn’t use rook/ceph (they run on k8s) for this which not only is a very reliable block storage system, but also offers a S3 compatible API, and is proven at other cloud providers like Digital Ocean.

I wish them the best but there is no way I would put my data into there.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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I miss something like GitHub but - hosted in the EU - without "FOSS only" limitation like codeberg. I know I can self-host forgejo but would be nice to have something like forge.eu (even paid!)

SourceHut is actually from Amsterdam, and has both unlisted and private repo visibility.

It's also self hostable, but I'm on the $2 tier and damn is it good.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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if you want to work on personal projects and store personal data, use gitLab; if you’re working on open-source projects, use codeberg. codeberg is a nonprofit organization dedicated to open source, so their storage policies are quite strict. gitLab offers 10gb of storage with no restrictions, and their data policies are much better than gitgub’s if you want full control and to deploy on your own, consider forgejo for an experience similar to github actions. If you’re used to gitlab’s pipelines, set up your own private gitlab instance

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

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The former CEO of GitHub has launched a competitor: https://thenewstack.io/thomas-dohmke-interview-entire/ Anyone using it?

Homepage only has login with GitHub option. Hard to call that a competitor.

Think of that GitHub login as more like a back door.
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