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Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by MYEUHD » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #10

michael_michael wrote: post #6

Are there any alternatives to Github that offer similar bang for the buck? Particularly for very small teams or solo devs that need private repos? The author here specifically mentions Codeberg, which seems like it's just for FOSS projects.

There's nothing about Codeberg that's FOSS only afaict. This was incorrect, I misread the changes to the TOS.

Codeberg requires that the repos you host are FOSS

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by ainiriand » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

NewJazz wrote: post #4

darkamaul wrote: post #2

I've noticed that several projects on the front page today (and over the past few days) are migrating away from GitHub. Is there any recent event or broader trend that explains this shift?

Ongoing availability issues, Microsoft's shoehorning of AI, GitHub's focus on migrating to Azure infrastructure rather than adding features and fixing shortcomings. If I had to guess.

... Training their own models out of your code...

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by duttish » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:23 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #7

Does Codeberg provide free CI runners? I'd estimate Microsoft spends over $100m/year on free Github CI. Likely their biggest cost. It doesn't seem like a reasonable thing Codeberg to fund for free.

For me this is the GitHub moat.

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by NewJazz » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:24 PM UTC

duttish wrote: post #13

IshKebab wrote: post #7

Does Codeberg provide free CI runners? I'd estimate Microsoft spends over $100m/year on free Github CI. Likely their biggest cost. It doesn't seem like a reasonable thing Codeberg to fund for free.

For me this is the GitHub moat.

It isn't really a moat so much as a loss leader. Travis CI was free back in the day IIRC.

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by jsheard » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:26 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #7

Does Codeberg provide free CI runners? I'd estimate Microsoft spends over $100m/year on free Github CI. Likely their biggest cost. It doesn't seem like a reasonable thing Codeberg to fund for free.

They do, but their capacity is limited so you have to ask them for access and make a reasonable case.

https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by ackyshake » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

michael_michael wrote: post #6

Are there any alternatives to Github that offer similar bang for the buck? Particularly for very small teams or solo devs that need private repos? The author here specifically mentions Codeberg, which seems like it's just for FOSS projects.

I like sourcehut. It's the only forge out there that isn't set out to copy the Github UI like everyone else. And its UI itself feels instantaneous, as if it was running locally.

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by bloppe » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:30 PM UTC

ainiriand wrote: post #12

NewJazz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ongoing availability issues, Microsoft's shoehorning of AI, GitHub's focus on migrating to Azure infrastructure rather than adding features and fixing shortcomings. If I had to guess.

... Training their own models out of your code...

If you're publishing your code anywhere, it's getting trained on. MS does not restrict themselves to only training on GH-hosted code.

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by wyldfire » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:30 PM UTC

michael_michael wrote: post #6

Are there any alternatives to Github that offer similar bang for the buck? Particularly for very small teams or solo devs that need private repos? The author here specifically mentions Codeberg, which seems like it's just for FOSS projects.

Sourcehut [1] is another interesting one.

[1] https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by Emen15 » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

What really stands out to me in this migration story isn't the technical side at all, but the reminder that "feature parity" isn't the real hurdle here. Codeberg is already good enough for most day to day workflows; what it doesn't have is the gravitational pull GitHub built through network effects, integrations, and plain old inertia.

Re: GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

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Post by bloppe » Sun, Nov 30, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

michael_michael wrote: post #6

Are there any alternatives to Github that offer similar bang for the buck? Particularly for very small teams or solo devs that need private repos? The author here specifically mentions Codeberg, which seems like it's just for FOSS projects.

If you want bang for your buck, and you use free GitHub Actions, then no.