GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

3 days ago by dhruv3006 to c/selfhosted

GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by ...
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melfie 30 points 3 days ago

Self-hosted Forgejo works well for my own use. My employer is moving to GitHub Enterprise where it’s a separate instance per company with certain infra shared. Should be a slight improvement, I guess, though probably not a bad idea to make sure internal tooling is built with the git forge being configurable. πŸ˜‰

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gdog05 12 points 3 days ago

I've been eyeing Gitea. Do you have any reason for using Forgejo that I might overlook Gitea in favor of it?

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melfie 22 points 3 days ago

I used to run Gitea and switched to Forgejo mainly because I prefer a community project over one run by a for-profit company. I never had any substantive complaints against Gitea during my time with it to be honest, but thought I’d get off of it before investing too much further in case it went in a bad direction.

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gdog05 13 points 3 days ago

That is a solid enough reason and one I wasn't aware of. Exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to find out, thank you!

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uzay 2 points 2 days ago

The transition of gitea to chasing profits was pretty messy too iirc and motivated the forgejo fork. Gitea lost a lot of good-will back then. Forgejo is also the base that codeberg runs on now.

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