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Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
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Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#272Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#273I tried codeberg, used it a year, then early this year in all their wisdom codeberg decided to show adverserial random text instead of my repo, reporteldly to mess up llm training to user agents they weren't sure were human. Codeberg had one job, serve my repo, it didn't do that, when brought up, I was told it was a feature not a bug, they could maybe whitelist me but that wasn't my problem, it was that random people…
Is your complaint about Anubis? I see the "checking if you are human" kind of text too when going to codeberg, but it is usually only a second or two. It is because I run a bit of obfuscation and resistance to browser finger printing. But you find seeing the text for a couple of seconds too annoying to use codeberg? Maybe it is more than 2 seconds for you? Everyone has their views on what is acceptable in the world a…
Also, Anubis is cute!
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#274We've been self-hosting GitLab for about a year now, and I don't remember it ever going down or being unavailable. We self-host almost everything else too (except for online meetings), and it's all been pretty stable as well. Some of the tools we self-host do go down occasionally, but it's usually just a matter of restarting the VM or adding more storage.
Do you serve the instance on the public internet or on a VPN? I've been thinking about self-hosting myself, but for my purposes (open source), I'm worries about scrapers and other sources of DOS-like traffic.
Just use tailscale
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
You use github as a backup, why bother self-hosting then?
Not GP. Probably less dependencies on github, e.g. actions which sometimes don't work. This way github is a "dumb backup". I selfhost forgejo (gitea fork) on home sever (nuc), similar setup with tailscale. I was planning to setup git mirror on a remote VM for backup, but since I am the only one using it and have everything on dev laptop and remote backups of nuc server I didn't bother to do that (I know I still shoul…
what are your home server specs to self host forgejo?
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not GP. Probably less dependencies on github, e.g. actions which sometimes don't work. This way github is a "dumb backup". I selfhost forgejo (gitea fork) on home sever (nuc), similar setup with tailscale. I was planning to setup git mirror on a remote VM for backup, but since I am the only one using it and have everything on dev laptop and remote backups of nuc server I didn't bother to do that (I know I still shoul…
what are your home server specs to self host forgejo?
NUC 11 i5-1135G7 with 32gb of ram and one nvme. Bought it new years ago.
For forgejo I host only code and packages there, everything is built on dev pc since I am the only one using it. It also host postgresql server, jellyfin (for music only), custom OPDS server (for books only) SMB shared directory I can use from multiple PCs, some test environments for personal projects and possibly more things I forgot.
It's a small pc but it works without problems. I do have to clean it from time to time (with cheap battery-powered air duster) to keep the thermals low.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#277If the goal is lowering GitHub dependence without going full self-host, Buddy has built-in Git hosting alongside its CI/CD, so repos and pipelines live in the same place.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
what are your home server specs to self host forgejo?
NUC 11 i5-1135G7 with 32gb of ram and one nvme. Bought it new years ago. For forgejo I host only code and packages there, everything is built on dev pc since I am the only one using it. It also host postgresql server, jellyfin (for music only), custom OPDS server (for books only) SMB shared directory I can use from multiple PCs, some test environments for personal projects and possibly more things I forgot. It's a sm…
yeah i have 3 NUCs at home, albeit with less ram and smaller hdd than yours. im already using them for dokploy and other services so trying to selfhost forgeo or gitea might bring it to its max.
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#279Agree with this
Re: Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
#280Why don't open source alternatives just copy the UI to make it easier to switch? Everyone knows the GitHub UI and it's intuitive. I'm happy to get more privacy and freedom, you don't have to make a worse design just to be different. Fluxer figured this out and they're the best discord replacement imo. https://fluxer.app/
I’m not disputing how intuitive the GitHub interface is, but seriously, why is it so hard for technical professionals to set aside 10–20 minutes of their time to learn a new interface? Why has this even become an issue worth discussing?
Not to mention GH's pull request UI is just...
dogshit.
One of the worst code review tools I've ever used. If not the worst.