Bye, Bye GitHub

luciandan

So why no self-hosted GitLab then?

multisport

IME switching git providers is very hard, especially getting off of github. Most companies have insane numbers of integrations, automations, etc on top of GH. So yeah, its on us, but its also pretty simple algebra: does GH's downtime affect us more than the cost of switching? Most companies the answer is no. When people ask why people aren't switching to Gitlab, ADO, Bitbucket, etc, I believe this is the reason.

n3storm

Gitea installs like a Breeze

josefritzishere

I blame Microslop

coolThingsFirst

It’s only fair when the big guy steals intellectual property from the small guy.

cdrnsf

I've had exactly zero issues hosting Forgejo. GitHub is only going to get worse.

dabedee

I agree with the sentiment of the post, and Github deserves every bit of it. Tried codeberg (which uses forgejo) and I am very happy with it personally.

ralph84

What frontier model did GitHub train? All of the frontier labs scraped GitHub like they scraped everything else. While GitHub has certainly tried to profit from AI, directing ire at GitHub for frontier labs training on public code seems misplaced.

onesandofgrain

Welcome, i left 2 years ago, i'm surprised more haven't. I use https://sharemygit.com to share repos around.

pico303

The problem is nothing competes with GitHub. I know, GitLab. Gitea. Bitbucket. They have some features, but it’s like suggesting I drive a Nissan Sentra because my BMW breaks down once in a while.

vladkens

GitHub is going the wrong way, but there really is nothing workable for open-source projects except GitHub. I don’t want to register on all these random GitHub killers just to open an issue or PR in a random project I’ve interacted with. For personal or team setups, any third-party service will work well.

jamesponddotco

With SourceHut banning projects that use LLMs[1], I’m looking to migrate this weekend. While I can host Forgejo just fine[2], doing so means no one will be able to contribute to the projects, since federation isn’t a thing yet. Heck, getting contributions on SourceHut was hard enough, and it doesn’t even require people to register an account. I might need to bite the bullet and go with GitHub. Regardless of what I think about the company and Microsoft, it’s where the people are. [1]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/ [2]: And already do locally, as a mirror to SourceHut.

oscarcp

I was about to mention Codeberg but I saw the last two changes to the terms of use and they're basically digging themselves into the ground with so many restrictions

nshm

Btw, did anyone notice they removed access to "who starred the project" recently. You can only check your own repos, not external ones. It was very nice to find related people before.

JLO64

I'm in the middle of a Forgejo migration myself for similar reasons. What finally pushed me over the edge was a hour long Actions outage that prevented me from pushing a hot fix for a bug to my webapp. (I relied on GH Actions to build and push an ARM Docker image.) For work that a business depends on, I can't recommend GitHub Actions. It's not just the outages that personally annoyed me, but the fact that I'm paying for it as well. So far I'm loving Forgejo and have no regrets!

arbadacarba

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