Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge

whalesalad

"In no event shall CodeFloe or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption)" So many fly-by-night "github replacements" popping up. Step 1, buy a hetzner dedi server from the auction for $100/mo. Step 2, install Forgejo. Step 3, ride the wave of anti-US, anti-big-corp senitment to get users onto your platform. Step 4, an HDD fails in your i9-13900k and you lose half of your users' data. If you are going to offer hosting, you need to state what kind of guarantees around data protection you offer.

mtlynch

I've ported a couple of repos to CodeFloe in the last few days, and so far, so good. Performance is similar to when I self-host Forgejo on a dedicated VPS where I'm the only user, which is super fast. And their built-in CI is pretty nice. It's a huge contrast to Codeberg, which struggles with basic navigation of the web UI and every git push or pull takes 2-10s.

rantingdemon

What makes this different than Codeberg?

watusername

Being "professionally hosted" is not enough: You need a "cluefully developed" distributed git backend to be a GitHub competitor. Codeberg is already buckling despite being nowhere near GitHub's scale. When Codefloe gains more users/agents, it's going to suffer from the same fate since Forgejo/Gitea/Gogs just isn't a good foundation to build on top of.

catapart

Seems good! I'd migrate some of my open source projects, but they utilize the public static page hosting features of GitLab and GitHub, since they are typescript libraries that are demonstrated in the browser, so I'm reluctant to upset that.

arjie

I just use Github as a backup and use my own git repos as primary. Works really well. CI/CD is blazing fast as well. You don't need all these complicated actions flows and all that. Just write for yourself. And a missing feature is a short prompt away. Especially useful is that Github has a co-tenancy problem and an untrusted input problem. For your own company, you can build that more surgically. I wouldn't normally go on the build side of buy v build, but write-to-deploy duration minimization is a strong value of mine and with agents you really need that tight.

jiqiren

Free CI is what really is going to keep many on GitHub (Actions). Codeberg has Woodpecker CI requires a FOSS application to get approval to use limited free tier. CircleCI has a free tier also but doesn't look like official documentation for integrating with Forgejo. Being able to produce x86_64/arm64 builds for macOS, Linux, and Windows for free is a minimum start to get movement to another provider IMHO. GitHub already does this.