Nobody wants to pay for git hosting. Seems like nobody wants to self-host it either.

vinnymac 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I’m actively working on a free and open source alternative Frontend for Forgejo that I self host called Joui

jbvlkt 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am self hosting forgejo on my synology NAS. It is easier than it looks. Synology provides me access from the internet so I do not need static IP address. It took me at most 20 minutes to write (copy paste) docker compose file to make it run and another hour to import repositories from github and gitlab. Only maintenance I do is update to new version once a while which takes about 5 minutes. You can set it up to sync repositories back to code forges.

If you do not have a lot of users you can easily set it up too.

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suobset 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Codeberg and Gitlab exist though. The problem is the inertia. Tons of repositories in GitHub from way before MS acquired them, which makes most people use GitHub, which makes most software projects choose GitHub.

Heck, GH Stars are used as a vanity metric for a lot of projects.

	▲	zephen 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Codeberg and Gitlab exist though. Soooo... Let me preface this by saying this is an old (so things are different) anecdote (which is not the singular of data), but... a) I had never heard of codeberg. b) My company used an on-prem gitlab instance, and it sucked donkey dicks. For example, the equivalent of just putting a statically generated site into github pages required running a fucking production pipe. You should make the easy things easy and the hard things possible. Making the easy things hard is an immediate red flag. > The problem is the inertia. Oh, don't worry about that. Github is working diligently to fix that problem. The question is, are the alternatives worthwhile?

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astrolx 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hosting forgejo on a cheap Hetzner server is the best and easiest trick that happened in my work life these last years !