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Codeberg is down

69 points by x3ro 10mo ago

x3ro 10mo ago
Since we've seen some high-profile projects move to Codeberg recently, and I was trying to sign-up, may be relevant to HN's interests :)
- dodos 10mo ago
  I was thinking the same thing, looks like a hug of death.
- theshrike79 10mo ago
  "Zig quits Github" is like two steps down from this on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406 :D
  - nirui 10mo ago
    https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig Currently Zig is the second most "stared" project on Codeberg (1443 stars). The first one is forgejo/forgejo (3154 stars) which is powering Codeberg, and the third one is dnkl/foot terminal emulator (1434). (see https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=&only_show_relevant=true&sort=moststars https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=&only_show_relevant=tru...) It's always interesting to see big and significant projects moving away from major commercial platforms. Could it be a sign of something new on the horizon?
  - nodesocket 10mo ago
    I mean, just disable the AI bloat features in GitHub. I’ve been using GitHub since 2010 (15 years - holy shit I am old) and it’s still the best. I never understood the mass complaining, though I give GitLab credit for building a massive company and taking it public. When GitLab launched I was like, this is going to fail as a business 100%. I was wrong. Edit: Funny enough GitLab is down 9% in pre-market and near all-time lows.
    - kunley 10mo ago
      The issue with Github is that they never denied feeding ai with private repositories. Gitlab, on the contrary, issued an official statement that they don't. EDIT: here is one statement from Gitlab https://forum.gitlab.com/t/can-i-opt-out-from-my-code-being-used-as-training-data-in-gitlab-duo/96563/5 https://forum.gitlab.com/t/can-i-opt-out-from-my-code-being-... I thinl I also saw another one
xz18r 10mo ago
I had a few updates failing because parts of it are hosted on Codeberg. If anything, this shows that people are moving there.
sonderotis 10mo ago
probably because of the zig migration lol /jk. first big project I see
- lousken 10mo ago
  Resource-wise it's 50x easier to run than gitlab, they should be fine.
eesmith 10mo ago
https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 , Dec 02, 2025, 10:18 PM "We are currently fighting against a DDoS attack against our service and our status page. We are analyzing network traffic with the help of our ISP at the moment and let you know once we have updates to share."
- CodeCompost 10mo ago
  They're not paying the Cloudflare protection money?
- fabioborellini 10mo ago
  DDoS or just too many new legitimate clients?
  - eesmith 10mo ago
    I think it's best to take their statement at face value. I have no special insight into the organization.
  - styanax 10mo ago
    Codeberg has been under DDOS attacks for most of 2025, someone out there has it in for them and has been attacking relentlessly. The volunteer team has been very transparent posting about in social media and their blogs.
    - maccard 10mo ago
      I think that even with someone having it out for them, the unfortunate reality of running a web service in 2025 is you have to be prepared to handle this and going down for hours at a time isn’t handling it.
  - mrweasel 10mo ago
    Define legitimate clients. I'd guess that a good number of their "clients" are AI scrapers.
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rvz 10mo ago
Let's see if anyone will pay for Codeberg after the migration from GitHub.
- Aldipower 10mo ago
  Mister, thou cannot pay for Codeberg.
alecco 10mo ago
It seems everything bug CI is back up. Congrats to Codeberg for having a real status page and not a made up one like AWS and many others.
- samdoesnothing 10mo ago
  What's better, CI thats built by monkeys or CI that's offline?
  - tpoacher 10mo ago
    definitely the latter.
  - ErroneousBosh 10mo ago
    I agree with tpoacher. A CI that's completely broken and not building anything cannot produce incorrect results. If it's producing no result at all, you know it's broken, not simply incorrect.
- phoronixrly 10mo ago
  Shame on Atlassian that during their last full bitbucket outage took an hour to even acknowledge an issue on their status page, then another full hour until the status page reflected the reality (that it was indeed a complete outage).
- irusensei 10mo ago
  Those made up status pages like AWS and Azure need to be signed up by a director so it doesn't hurt their pretty SLA.
- KronisLV 10mo ago
  > Powered by Uptime Kuma Uptime Kuma is really nice: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma Supports all sorts of alerts and can even tell you if it ever looks like your TLS certs will soon expire (if any automation is broken, or you use commercial certs with manual rotation).
Kalpana01 10mo ago
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- johnh-hn 10mo ago
  This is a bot. It's even copied the typo from the top comment.
  - gary_0 10mo ago
    If you email hn@ycombinator.com they're usually quite responsive about banning obvious bot accounts.
    - johnh-hn 10mo ago
      Ah, I was wondering about that. Flagging didn't seem like quite the right thing to do, but at the same time I don't see a reason to leave bots hanging around. Thanks Gary, I'll use that next time.
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thomasfromcdnjs 10mo ago
"bad press is good press" I don't care for Zig at all, and had never heard of Codeberg, they are now solidified in my mind aha
- jabbywocker 10mo ago
  Codeberg will never make it now, thomas has formed his final opinion
jdthedisciple 10mo ago
Considering moving to Codeberg too, but only 90% uptime for codeberg.org has me concerned. Not a great look unfortunately
- tpoacher 10mo ago
  why not sourcehut?
  - alessivs 10mo ago
    Drew's direct engagement into tech cancel-culture (with targets such as DHH, RMS, Andreas Kling, Jack Dorsey), makes it difficult to do business with him (assuming hosted sourcehut service as an alternative to codeberg). Furthermore, at the newly proposed service rates it is much more liberating to self-host (any lightweight forge–including sourcehut).
    - tpoacher 10mo ago
      Fair enough. I haven't followed closely; but the few times I did, it seemed that he had reasonably nuanced opinions translating into upholdable values, rather than overzealous cancel-fever, whether I agreed with his opinions or not. To me this is not reason enough to not use his product, and I happen to like his product (much more than the alternatives anyway). Also, it would be remiss of me not to appreciate the irony that you're effectively suggesting "cancelling" his business over his opinions which you consider of a "cancelly" nature ...
  - nodesocket 10mo ago
    Because the UI looks like it crafted by a Nix system admin and the user experience is garbage. Just my opinion.
    - tpoacher 10mo ago
      Fair enough. I actually like the user experience. (despite having no experience with nix systems, may I add :D )
ramon156 10mo ago
I would say hug of death is very different to an outage due to an error. Still good to own up ofcourse!
- mariusor 10mo ago
  This is no hug, this is a villain kneecapping them with a pipe.
booleandilemma 10mo ago
So when Codeberg gets famous what's to stop Microsoft or another behemoth from acquiring it and starting the whole cycle over again?
- rsolva 10mo ago
  It is a non-profit association based in Berlin, and its very existence is a protest towards Microsoft and the other big actors in this space. And it is built on Forgejo, an open source project with a strong community around it. Both Codeberg and sourcehut are good options when escaping the walled gardens of Big Tech :)
  - booleandilemma 10mo ago
    Awesome, thanks to you and Xylakant.
- Xylakant 10mo ago
  It’s an e.V., a German legal construct for public good organizations. That doesn’t make it impossible to buy it, but all profits from a sale must flow into recognized public good efforts. The incentive to sell for huge sums is just much lower for all people involved.
veltas 10mo ago
Good thing git is distributed! I always like to move as much as possible into the repo itself, 'issues' etc in a TODO, build scripts, or however you want to achieve that, so you can at least carry on uninterrupted when the host is down.
fxttr 10mo ago
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69 points by x3ro 10mo ago

x3ro 10mo ago

Since we've seen some high-profile projects move to Codeberg recently, and I was trying to sign-up, may be relevant to HN's interests :)

dodos 10mo ago
I was thinking the same thing, looks like a hug of death.
theshrike79 10mo ago
"Zig quits Github" is like two steps down from this on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406 :D
- nirui 10mo ago
  https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig Currently Zig is the second most "stared" project on Codeberg (1443 stars). The first one is forgejo/forgejo (3154 stars) which is powering Codeberg, and the third one is dnkl/foot terminal emulator (1434). (see https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=&only_show_relevant=true&sort=moststars https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=&only_show_relevant=tru...) It's always interesting to see big and significant projects moving away from major commercial platforms. Could it be a sign of something new on the horizon?
- nodesocket 10mo ago
  I mean, just disable the AI bloat features in GitHub. I’ve been using GitHub since 2010 (15 years - holy shit I am old) and it’s still the best. I never understood the mass complaining, though I give GitLab credit for building a massive company and taking it public. When GitLab launched I was like, this is going to fail as a business 100%. I was wrong. Edit: Funny enough GitLab is down 9% in pre-market and near all-time lows.
  - kunley 10mo ago
    The issue with Github is that they never denied feeding ai with private repositories. Gitlab, on the contrary, issued an official statement that they don't. EDIT: here is one statement from Gitlab https://forum.gitlab.com/t/can-i-opt-out-from-my-code-being-used-as-training-data-in-gitlab-duo/96563/5 https://forum.gitlab.com/t/can-i-opt-out-from-my-code-being-... I thinl I also saw another one

xz18r 10mo ago

I had a few updates failing because parts of it are hosted on Codeberg. If anything, this shows that people are moving there.

sonderotis 10mo ago

probably because of the zig migration lol /jk. first big project I see

lousken 10mo ago
Resource-wise it's 50x easier to run than gitlab, they should be fine.

eesmith 10mo ago

https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 , Dec 02, 2025, 10:18 PM "We are currently fighting against a DDoS attack against our service and our status page. We are analyzing network traffic with the help of our ISP at the moment and let you know once we have updates to share."

CodeCompost 10mo ago
They're not paying the Cloudflare protection money?
fabioborellini 10mo ago
DDoS or just too many new legitimate clients?
- eesmith 10mo ago
  I think it's best to take their statement at face value. I have no special insight into the organization.
- styanax 10mo ago
  Codeberg has been under DDOS attacks for most of 2025, someone out there has it in for them and has been attacking relentlessly. The volunteer team has been very transparent posting about in social media and their blogs.
  - maccard 10mo ago
    I think that even with someone having it out for them, the unfortunate reality of running a web service in 2025 is you have to be prepared to handle this and going down for hours at a time isn’t handling it.
- mrweasel 10mo ago
  Define legitimate clients. I'd guess that a good number of their "clients" are AI scrapers.
10mo ago

rvz 10mo ago

Let's see if anyone will pay for Codeberg after the migration from GitHub.

Aldipower 10mo ago
Mister, thou cannot pay for Codeberg.

alecco 10mo ago

It seems everything bug CI is back up. Congrats to Codeberg for having a real status page and not a made up one like AWS and many others.

samdoesnothing 10mo ago
What's better, CI thats built by monkeys or CI that's offline?
- tpoacher 10mo ago
  definitely the latter.
- ErroneousBosh 10mo ago
  I agree with tpoacher. A CI that's completely broken and not building anything cannot produce incorrect results. If it's producing no result at all, you know it's broken, not simply incorrect.
phoronixrly 10mo ago
Shame on Atlassian that during their last full bitbucket outage took an hour to even acknowledge an issue on their status page, then another full hour until the status page reflected the reality (that it was indeed a complete outage).
irusensei 10mo ago
Those made up status pages like AWS and Azure need to be signed up by a director so it doesn't hurt their pretty SLA.
KronisLV 10mo ago
> Powered by Uptime Kuma Uptime Kuma is really nice: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma Supports all sorts of alerts and can even tell you if it ever looks like your TLS certs will soon expire (if any automation is broken, or you use commercial certs with manual rotation).

Kalpana01 10mo ago

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johnh-hn 10mo ago
This is a bot. It's even copied the typo from the top comment.
- gary_0 10mo ago
  If you email hn@ycombinator.com they're usually quite responsive about banning obvious bot accounts.
  - johnh-hn 10mo ago
    Ah, I was wondering about that. Flagging didn't seem like quite the right thing to do, but at the same time I don't see a reason to leave bots hanging around. Thanks Gary, I'll use that next time.

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thomasfromcdnjs 10mo ago

"bad press is good press" I don't care for Zig at all, and had never heard of Codeberg, they are now solidified in my mind aha

jabbywocker 10mo ago
Codeberg will never make it now, thomas has formed his final opinion

jdthedisciple 10mo ago

Considering moving to Codeberg too, but only 90% uptime for codeberg.org has me concerned. Not a great look unfortunately

tpoacher 10mo ago
why not sourcehut?
- alessivs 10mo ago
  Drew's direct engagement into tech cancel-culture (with targets such as DHH, RMS, Andreas Kling, Jack Dorsey), makes it difficult to do business with him (assuming hosted sourcehut service as an alternative to codeberg). Furthermore, at the newly proposed service rates it is much more liberating to self-host (any lightweight forge–including sourcehut).
  - tpoacher 10mo ago
    Fair enough. I haven't followed closely; but the few times I did, it seemed that he had reasonably nuanced opinions translating into upholdable values, rather than overzealous cancel-fever, whether I agreed with his opinions or not. To me this is not reason enough to not use his product, and I happen to like his product (much more than the alternatives anyway). Also, it would be remiss of me not to appreciate the irony that you're effectively suggesting "cancelling" his business over his opinions which you consider of a "cancelly" nature ...
- nodesocket 10mo ago
  Because the UI looks like it crafted by a Nix system admin and the user experience is garbage. Just my opinion.
  - tpoacher 10mo ago
    Fair enough. I actually like the user experience. (despite having no experience with nix systems, may I add :D )

ramon156 10mo ago

I would say hug of death is very different to an outage due to an error. Still good to own up ofcourse!

mariusor 10mo ago
This is no hug, this is a villain kneecapping them with a pipe.

booleandilemma 10mo ago

So when Codeberg gets famous what's to stop Microsoft or another behemoth from acquiring it and starting the whole cycle over again?

rsolva 10mo ago
It is a non-profit association based in Berlin, and its very existence is a protest towards Microsoft and the other big actors in this space. And it is built on Forgejo, an open source project with a strong community around it. Both Codeberg and sourcehut are good options when escaping the walled gardens of Big Tech :)
- booleandilemma 10mo ago
  Awesome, thanks to you and Xylakant.
Xylakant 10mo ago
It’s an e.V., a German legal construct for public good organizations. That doesn’t make it impossible to buy it, but all profits from a sale must flow into recognized public good efforts. The incentive to sell for huge sums is just much lower for all people involved.

veltas 10mo ago

Good thing git is distributed! I always like to move as much as possible into the repo itself, 'issues' etc in a TODO, build scripts, or however you want to achieve that, so you can at least carry on uninterrupted when the host is down.

fxttr 10mo ago

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