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At work we've started switching to codeberg (which uses forgejo) and honestly it's a breath of fresh air compared to GitHub. It's blazing fast compared to GitHu

by oxalorg 9mo ago

At work we've started switching to codeberg (which uses forgejo) and honestly it's a breath of fresh air compared to GitHub. It's blazing fast compared to GitHub and has feature parity with our needs.

FinnKuhn 9mo ago
Not an option for the majority of companies as it only allows open source repositories as far as I'm aware.
- akshitgaur2005 9mo ago
  Tangled.org
- homebrewer 9mo ago
  Selfhosting gitea is trivial, I'm saying this as someone who has been doing it at work for almost 6 years. Our experience has recently prompted another org (run by people we know) to move off GitHub, they also seem to be happy.
  - FinnKuhn 9mo ago
    There are plenty of alternatives to Github, from Gitlab and Gittea to Forgejo, but Codeberg is not one of them, which is what I wanted to stress.
TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
I have (almost completely) moved my business from GitHub to Forgejo as well. I’m deploying an instance at home as well. It’s shocking how bloated and slow GitHub is even for basic actions when you compare it to Forgejo running just your own stuff. Bonus: if you can manage to reliably backup a database and a filesystem, you can then backup your forge. Outside GH Enterprise there is still no restorable backup option inside GitHub.
- tyre 9mo ago
  This is great to hear! I’ll check it out. How is it for usability (other than speed) compared to GH. Given that most/all devs are already comfortable in GH. What are the downsides in your experience?
  - TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
    A bit late on my reply here, sorry. There are minor clumsy points here and there in the UI, but nothing major and nothing that’s a stumbling block. It’s hard to paint a perfect comparison without using the same features but all the basics are there and working. The version we have in use doesn’t support a gist functionality but the last I looked there was a PR for a similar feature with a less-GH—lawyer-baiting name. That was the biggest thing for me. It has a GH Actions compatible rubber system too.

by oxalorg 9mo ago

FinnKuhn 9mo ago

Not an option for the majority of companies as it only allows open source repositories as far as I'm aware.

akshitgaur2005 9mo ago
Tangled.org
homebrewer 9mo ago
Selfhosting gitea is trivial, I'm saying this as someone who has been doing it at work for almost 6 years. Our experience has recently prompted another org (run by people we know) to move off GitHub, they also seem to be happy.
- FinnKuhn 9mo ago
  There are plenty of alternatives to Github, from Gitlab and Gittea to Forgejo, but Codeberg is not one of them, which is what I wanted to stress.

TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago

I have (almost completely) moved my business from GitHub to Forgejo as well. I’m deploying an instance at home as well. It’s shocking how bloated and slow GitHub is even for basic actions when you compare it to Forgejo running just your own stuff. Bonus: if you can manage to reliably backup a database and a filesystem, you can then backup your forge. Outside GH Enterprise there is still no restorable backup option inside GitHub.

tyre 9mo ago
This is great to hear! I’ll check it out. How is it for usability (other than speed) compared to GH. Given that most/all devs are already comfortable in GH. What are the downsides in your experience?
- TheNewsIsHere 9mo ago
  A bit late on my reply here, sorry. There are minor clumsy points here and there in the UI, but nothing major and nothing that’s a stumbling block. It’s hard to paint a perfect comparison without using the same features but all the basics are there and working. The version we have in use doesn’t support a gist functionality but the last I looked there was a PR for a similar feature with a less-GH—lawyer-baiting name. That was the biggest thing for me. It has a GH Actions compatible rubber system too.