5mo ago

Info on quitting Github (owned by Microsoft)

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

https://wowana.me/blog/why-i-no-longer-use-github.xht

https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html

https://mikegerwitz.com/about/githubbub

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github

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http://codeberg.org/ is way better! It’s s German!
- It’s my favourite, but your license must be open source to use it.
I've left github for personal projects (still need it for work for now), and moved to Gitlab. Gitlab is honestly not any better when thinking about european alternatives (it's also US), and it is not completely open-source either, but the nice european alternative Codeberg is only for open-source projects and doesn't really tolerate or give an option to pay to host non-opensource projects.
I would pay for codeberg if they allowed non-opensource repositories, but they have stated that codeberg does not really allow non-opensource projects. I'm a FOSS enthusiast and donate my time and money to FOSS, but not everything I make is FOSS.
I know, I could selfhost Forgejo, but it would truly be great to have, say, EU funded open code repository like Github/GitLab with possibility to pay to host non-opensource projects or something.
- Aren't there any managed Forgejo instances?
  
  There are, but so far the ones I've found are not reliable enough for bigger scale stuff. That's kinda why I mentioned "being ready to pay". If there would be - let's say - non-profit foundation hosting something like codeberg with free-tier for FOSS and paid for non-FOSS in Europe I'd switch to it.
  I'm really looking forward to Forgejo implementing federation and am hoping to selfhost someday, but for now codeberg is not really allowing my full repository to be hosted :(
  
  There are managed Gitlab instances:
  https://www.gitlabhost.com/ https://www.stackhero.io/en/services/GitLab/benefits
I've been self-hosting Gitea for a few years now and love it
- Beware that Gitea has some drama going on. Forgejo is a Gitea fork that's a drop-in replacement (literally just change the image name in the docker compose file) and has a much nicer theme at that!
  
  Thanks for the heads up, looking into it now
  
  Another one I really like is sourcehut, really simple and clean imo. But it is still in alpha
Use https://codeberg.org/
- codeberg does not really allow non-opensource projects
I recently started using codeberg.org for the small (non code-related) stuff I share, in case anyone would be interested.
For all my personal stuff (still not code related as it's prose writing, for the most part) I pay for a host git install. I think I could use a GUI/pretty webpage if i really wanted to, but the command line/ssh access works so well I never asked if I could have a gui. And I'm not even a geek :p
- GUIs were invented by Xerox so we have to use the command-line only.
  
  :)
Thanks!
If you just want to share your code, discuss it, and have a simple bug tracker, all self hosted, there's fossil. Just one binary, already packaged in distros, and used by the sqlite project.
https://www.codebasehq.com/ is another alternative. Sadly no free plan
Any alternatives to having a website hosted on github pages?
I can only use mobile, and it’s just convinient to write it in plaintext markdown. On mobile I can’t use clunky UI’s or pure html/css/js.
- Not sure if codeberg has that. I know the underlying software (Forgejo) has pages functionality, but not sure if codeberg has them enabled.
  
  Codeberg pages is indeed a thing

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