forgejo is a pretty great piece of software.

a lot of this we've really come to know as we dug into both it, gittea, gitlab, and all of their internals.

i think the short answer as to a differentiator is design. our goal's to just build the best product possible, one that we'd love to use and one that we hope developers do too.

some of the stuff we've been thinking about include: stacked diffs as PR primitive, a Nix-based CI (that's reproducible and locally testible), a super simple and intuitive bug tracker, and just making the site super duper fast and pleasant to use.

that is to say, there is a _lot_ of surface area that a software forge covers and i think there's a lot of room to make things better.

hope that's clear enough, apologies for any ambiguities, we do NOT have all the answers quite yet haha

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eqvinox 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm a bit confused, aren't the Forgejo people trying to build the "best product possible", too? And there's more of them, and they have funding, and… between 2 good forges or 1 great one, I rather have 1 great one… I guess you're not interested in joining them because it's not Rust?

	▲	baepaul 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		thank you both for asking. i think the honest answer here is autonomy. the freedom to choose our own tech stack, our own product priorities, and our own design. i'll also admit that i don't know forgejo's own priorities as well as i do our own, and that is negligence that we're due to correct. maybe they are perfectly aligned and it does make sense for us to join forces. but just as with any FOSS project, they have the freedom to choose what they work on as do we, and i intend on respecting that.

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KolmogorovComp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> i think there's a lot of room to make things better

I think the question is why not try to make the other FOSS forges better instead of reinventing the wheel.