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Not to add to the noise, but I've switched to Forgejo. It was very easy to migrate (as Forgejo is just a fork of Gitea, even has references to Gitea in a lot of

Not to add to the noise, but I've switched to Forgejo. It was very easy to migrate (as Forgejo is just a fork of Gitea, even has references to Gitea in a lot of places, like env variable names), and I've been very happy with it for the past ~6 months.

remram 3y ago
What is changed in Forgejo compared to Gitea? If the only difference is the name, Gitea is a better name.
- Macha 3y ago
  Gitea have moved the product from a community governed product to an open core one and handed over the gitea.com domain to a hosted services vendor
  - remram 3y ago
    My question was: what did Forgejo do? If the software is still developed in Gitea's repository, and all Forgejo does is download the source from gitea.com, rename it, and post it on forgejo.org... how does that help the users? If there exists some Gitea features that are not available open source ("open core")... how does having Forgejo help? Unless they provide those features, the situation remains unchanged. Until they do, what is there to applaud, and what's the point of switching?
    - k8svet 3y ago
      Luckily Forgejo has a blog with a days-old blog post that spells this out. The winds are clearly blowing in Forgejo's direction despite some doubt from me, early on.
      - Nullabillity 3y ago
        The "we're becoming a hard fork"[0] blog post says that they are hard-forking and what the consequences of that will be, but says nothing about why. [0]: https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/ https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/
        quickslowdown 3y ago
        The "why" was explained by another commentor. They became hostile to their community, pulling a bunch of features out of reach and moving previously free features behind paywalls. They're moving to target more enterprise customers, and as a personal user, I don't want to be limited in this way, so I've switched to the community fork (Forgejo)
      - remram 3y ago
        Did you get an answer to my question there? I didn't...

remram 3y ago

What is changed in Forgejo compared to Gitea? If the only difference is the name, Gitea is a better name.

Macha 3y ago
Gitea have moved the product from a community governed product to an open core one and handed over the gitea.com domain to a hosted services vendor
- remram 3y ago
  My question was: what did Forgejo do? If the software is still developed in Gitea's repository, and all Forgejo does is download the source from gitea.com, rename it, and post it on forgejo.org... how does that help the users? If there exists some Gitea features that are not available open source ("open core")... how does having Forgejo help? Unless they provide those features, the situation remains unchanged. Until they do, what is there to applaud, and what's the point of switching?
  - k8svet 3y ago
    Luckily Forgejo has a blog with a days-old blog post that spells this out. The winds are clearly blowing in Forgejo's direction despite some doubt from me, early on.
    - Nullabillity 3y ago
      The "we're becoming a hard fork"[0] blog post says that they are hard-forking and what the consequences of that will be, but says nothing about why. [0]: https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/ https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/
      - quickslowdown 3y ago
        The "why" was explained by another commentor. They became hostile to their community, pulling a bunch of features out of reach and moving previously free features behind paywalls. They're moving to target more enterprise customers, and as a personal user, I don't want to be limited in this way, so I've switched to the community fork (Forgejo)
    - remram 3y ago
      Did you get an answer to my question there? I didn't...