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Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
- benthecarman 3mo agoOur CI for our entire org at https://github.com/lightningdevkit https://github.com/lightningdevkit was turned off for 3 weeks because an outside contributor who was wrongfully banned made a PR. After multiple appeals we received no explanation and was told it was a permanent ban until we made a stir on twitter. They sadly are no longer a good place to work.
- latexr 3mo ago> One new user joins every second Do they? Or is it that a new account is opened every second? Because I’ve been seeing so many spammers and scammers that those numbers have to be skewed.
- qroole 3mo ago[flagged]
- 5701652400 3mo ago+ predatory pricing hikes for AI + not honouring yearly commitments plans
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoI'm still paying $4 a month for GitHub since I keep some repos private, which was down from the $8 a month or whatever before Microsoft acquired GitHub, are you saying there's a price hike for AI services or something else?
- grim_io 3mo agoIn case you didn't know, you don't need to pay for private repos.
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoYou do if you want wikis and protected branches, the other features I'm not as invested in, and protected branches is just a common sense nice to have.
- 5701652400 3mo agoAI yearly plans got particulalry hasrsh treatment. per official GitHub Blogs and policies, they penalized specifically yearly plans with 50x ~ 100x multipliers on 2026-06-01. and yearly plans were given options by GitHub: A) leave and get pro-rata refund; 2) switch to new plan. so what is the point of yearly plans when GitHub can unilatrerally change conditions of your plan? or force you to leave? what is the point of agreement if I can change it later or say "no agreement".
- sneak 3mo agoDid we all forget that GitHub’s military-industrial complex owners over at Microsoft made sure to send the “business as usual” signal to the USG when they refused to stop helping ICE violate human rights en masse? This was during the kidnap-and-rape-kids-in-cages days and before they started a general policy of kidnapping and/or summarily executing law-abiding citizens in the street. There are more reasons now to disassociate with collaborators with the US federal government than ever. I guess I could say I dropped GitHub before it was cool? https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-and-us-government-developers/ https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-and-us... https://github.com/sneak https://github.com/sneak Microsoft is a morally bankrupt and despicable organization, just like Meta, Amazon, and modern Google and Apple. Anyone still doing ongoing business with them in 2026 is, imho, a fool.
- youre-wrong3 3mo agoCan’t go a day without propaganda on HN.
- inigyou 3mo agoEverything is propaganda, including your comment and this one.
- DonHopkins 3mo ago[flagged]
- graemep 3mo ago> Anyone still doing ongoing business with them in 2026 is, imho, a fool. So that would be almost everyone.
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- cryo32 3mo agoI've ditched Github for all personal stuff. I just keep my repositories offline. I have a reliable backup process so what's the point in pushing it there? I don't give a shit about public profile, stars or any of that gamified crap and I certainly don't trust them.
- ezoe 3mo agoI guess three nines availability is important.
- onion2k 3mo agoNot even hitting 1 nine at the moment - https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
- jopsen 3mo agoI object! The dashboard clearly says 89.15% uptime! Who says nines need to be leading?
- etdznots 3mo agoWith enough precision in the time metric there are infinitely many nines!
- DonHopkins 3mo agoSomewhere in 3.14159...% uptime there are as many nines as you like!
- jjgreen 3mo ago... assuming time is infinitely divisible. (Not a physicist, is that open?)
- nottorp 3mo agoLately, 9 out of 10 times i click on a github link to access the repo for $random_project_hosted_on_github I get a page saying that I've been rate limited. Even if it's my first click on a github link for the week. I guess THAT page has the three nines availability.
- Cider9986 3mo agoWhy don't open source alternatives just copy the UI to make it easier to switch? Everyone knows the GitHub UI and it's intuitive. I'm happy to get more privacy and freedom, you don't have to make a worse design just to be different. Fluxer figured this out and they're the best discord replacement imo. https://fluxer.app/ https://fluxer.app/
- allarm 3mo agoI’m not disputing how intuitive the GitHub interface is, but seriously, why is it so hard for technical professionals to set aside 10–20 minutes of their time to learn a new interface? Why has this even become an issue worth discussing?
- cmrdporcupine 3mo agoNot to mention GH's pull request UI is just... dogshit. One of the worst code review tools I've ever used. If not the worst.
- duskdozer 3mo agoAcquiring github users may not be their highest priority.
- jorisw 3mo ago> copy the UI Good luck. The amount of features and screens on GitHub are vast aside from just those code / issues / PRs tabs.
- GoblinSlayer 3mo agoI think they have the same interface. Pull requests are renamed to merge requests, that's all the difference I see. Wait for github to reshuffle the ui in a redesign churn.
- kelvinjps10 3mo agoInst gitea doing this?
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- rob 3mo agoPeople are going to copy GitHub the way people copied Facebook… how is "Threads" doing again?
- etdznots 3mo agoNot good but that’s unsurprising since Thread’s value proposition is indistinguishable from twitter’s. Mastadon and bluesky seem to have healthy userbases though
- DonHopkins 3mo ago[dead]
- jorisw 3mo agoSentiment for/against GitHub aside... "Why X are doing Y" articles like these pretend that the premise of "X are doing Y" is true, conveniently skipping to the "Why" before proving that the premise is even accurate in any meaningful way. This is why I never buy headlines that start out with "Why". > developers are ditching Proceeds to list but a handful of remotely meaningful repos against the hundreds of thousands on there
- illliillll 3mo ago[dead]
- pjc50 3mo agoYou can just insert the word "some" as required.
- jorisw 3mo agoAgreed, but the headline wouldn't travel nearly as well, if at all. > Why some Americans are switching to soy Would be more accurate than > Why Americans are switching to soy But wouldn't garner nearly the same amount of clicks. There is conscious exaggeration in omitting 'some' - a fluff-blog click-farm trope I don't enjoy seeing in the developer space.
- pfisherman 3mo agoYou could drop the verb clause? This would make the headline accurate while keeping it punchy. > why Americans switch to soy And > why developers switch to codeberg But the cynic in me thinks that the form of the headline that drastically overstates the the phenomenon in question by implication is something that has been workshopped and is commonly used because it turns something kind of boring into a spectacle.
- gbacon 3mo agoSome means at least one.
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- BrenBarn 3mo agoSo sad to see that no articles about this even mention Mercurial. This is a golden opportunity for Hg providers to shine.
- signa11 3mo agothis not a `git` failure per se...
- BrenBarn 3mo agoYes, but the thing is just that if people are looking around for new providers it's an opportunity for alternative systems to attract attention and users.
- navigate8310 3mo agoI understand what you convey, however, users are tired of the git GUI, not git itself.
- signa11 3mo agobecause github is subpar, you will try to convince people to migrate their repositories to $NOT_GIT so they can try a different hosting service ? doesn’t sound like a pragmatic choice to me.
- srean 3mo agoI miss Bitbucket's Mercurial offering.
- DonHopkins 3mo agoBut Github is already fully volatile, capricious, fickle, erratic, unpredictable, variable, inconsistent, changeable, unstable, whimsical, protean, fluid, and a polluting poisonous room temperature liquid heavy metal, so why would you also need mercurial?
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- onesandofgrain 3mo agoself-hosted gitea/forgejo is still better
- hambos22 3mo agoIt's been 9 months since I ditched Github. Currently I self-host Gitea [0], use its registry for Docker, NPM etc and act runners [1] for github actions alternative, everything secured under tailnet. I'm extremely satisfied with that setup. It is batteries included & fire and forget. Now I use Github only as backup by mirroring my self hosted repos. [0] https://gitea.com https://gitea.com [1] https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner
- onesandofgrain 3mo agoYou use github as a backup, why bother self-hosting then?
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- close04 3mo agoThe self hosting will still be there and working as expected no matter what GH does (fails... again, DMCAs the repo, bans the account, etc.). Self hosting isn't only about being the only one with the data, it's also for the independence aspect. GH as a backup doesn't hinder the independence. Network effects are strong and make a lot of developers still have a GH presence as a secondary platform. The evolution is when one can finally fully disconnect from GH, the main self hosted platform will continue to operate as if nothing happened. A migration can have a period of parallel running.
- hambos22 3mo agoGithub is an extra layer of backup, among normal backups. [edit] Notable reasons: - Github runners went oftenly out of space & they were slow. With self hosted runners I don't have these issues anymore because I control the hardware. Previously I was paying Docker Build Cloud/Depot for performance + Github Pro for extra minutes. Now it's zero cost, superb performance and unlimited minutes. - I have a centralized registry with private packages and images. - It's secure, I don't worry if I accidentally make a repo public or leak secrets. I control the access to it in network level. - I own everything, in case something goes nuts (eg lose access to GH) I'm safe.
- Havoc 3mo agoIm just glad the wider world has finally snapped out of their GitHub mono culture trance.
- ahmedehab_01 3mo agoExtreme generalization, most devs aren't ditching GitHub yet.
- VimEscapeArtist 3mo agoI like GitHub and I'm not going to ditch anything, but I have to admit it's currently one of the few MS products that still holds up. Curious what it'll look like in a few years. Just in case, I've already reserved my username on Codeberg :)
- ahmedehab_01 3mo agoGood idea to reserve a username early! I will do that too Anyway, it's not that I don't think GitHub has real issues under Microsoft, but I disagree with the title of the article, as devs are not leaving it in droves, yet.
- Scaled 3mo agoFor private code, it just feels safer to self host that -- ideally behind wireguard for an extra layer of security. For public code hosting, GitHub have banned too many people/projects for comfort. From security researchers to 18+ game devs, too many have been wrongfully banned.
- srean 3mo agoAnyone has suggestions for hosting open source hobby projects managed with Mercurial. Loved Bitbucket's Mercurial offering. Looking for a replacement.
- notpushkin 3mo agoSourcehut has Mercurial support: https://hg.sr.ht/ https://hg.sr.ht/ Heptapod is a GitLab fork that adds Mercurial support: https://heptapod.net/ https://heptapod.net/, free for open source projects: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/foss.heptapod.net https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/foss.heptapod.net
- srean 3mo agoJust in time. I was about to edit my own comment to mention https://hg.sr.ht/ https://hg.sr.ht/ that I learned of from a comment by frabcus on this post. Thanks for links.
- fmind-dev 3mo agoIt reminds me of the time where I deployed Gitea for self-hosting my git projects. In the end, nobody wanted to use it beyond myself. I would love to have a true federation protocol for Git, to decentralize the solution further.
- mxuribe 3mo agoI think there are a few options coming around federation of repos - like extension of forgejo, and then there's a newish player called Tangled i think, etc. I'm no expert, but that is something i would like as well...and i'm pretty sure that we are not alone in that desire.
- littlecranky67 3mo agoMostly because developers (me included) don't like to be told we are being laid off due to AI that was trained on our free open-source hobby projects.
- litver 3mo agohow switching to an alternative like codeberg would prevent it? ti can be scraped as well
- _heimdall 3mo agoQuite a few commentors here mentioned using gitea or one of it's forks on a private tailnet. That would mean it isn't publicly available and can't be scraped.
- tigerlily 3mo agoThat's where it's all goin'. Private, outta sight. Keep the 'bots out, an' you keep the man out.
- littlecranky67 3mo agoBut on GitHub, you agree explicitly that MS can use it. I would assume codeberg has any-scraping measures (not saying they are perfect, but better than knowing Microsoft can train with private repos).
- grayhatter 3mo agoIt's a losing game to try to keep any FOSS code completely isolated from large scraping data sets. All you can do is never share it, or share it and eventually it'll get consumed by the machine. Spend your time making better software you and your friends can use... don't waste the time trying to stop others from making another painfully average codegen machine.
- bluefirebrand 3mo agoOr just stop making FOSS code Starve the greedy beast
- iamwil 3mo agoAnyone tried tangle as a replacement? Verdict?
- feverzsj 3mo agoIt's pretty much broken by AI. Not only your private repos are not private, but also the LLM will leak them.
- klaussilveira 3mo agoWe ditched GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo and could not be happier. The experience is smoother, faster and distraction-free.
- kgeist 3mo agoWe've been self-hosting GitLab for about a year now, and I don't remember it ever going down or being unavailable. We self-host almost everything else too (except for online meetings), and it's all been pretty stable as well. Some of the tools we self-host do go down occasionally, but it's usually just a matter of restarting the VM or adding more storage.
- ncphillips 3mo agoDo you self host chat?
- kgeist 3mo agoYes, Rocket.Chat
- tovej 3mo agoDo you serve the instance on the public internet or on a VPN? I've been thinking about self-hosting myself, but for my purposes (open source), I'm worries about scrapers and other sources of DOS-like traffic.
- kgeist 3mo agoVPN, accessible only from inside the corporate network
- dpacmittal 3mo agoJust use tailscale
- blooalien 3mo agoRecently on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833116 (Chatto went open source) so you might be able to self-host your online meetings pretty easily too if you wanted to. (They're not the only option in that space, either, although they are one of the easiest to spin up an instance of that I've seen thus far.)
- TekMol 3mo agoThe appeal of GitHub for me is not only in the git hosting, but also in codespaces. It gives me: 1: An easy way to start a VM 2: A one-click solution to access it via private https access So for development, I dont need to dabble with spawning my own Hetzner VM or something. And I also do not have to dabble with getting a temporary domain and DNS so I can set up my own letsencrypt certs and point the domain to that VM. I can just write an index.html, execute "sudo python -m http.server 80", click the link that then opens to something.app.github.dev and test my new web application. This is why codespaces make starting a new product idea a thing of like 1 minute instead of 1 hour for me.
- Madmallard 3mo agoI think and hope we see a lot more of this before the adversarial imperative returns from the company side. People using Claude Fable to just make replacements for disgustingly enshittified software. We desperately need browser extensions to help make websites less scummy across the board as well.
- rmnull 3mo agoGenuinely curious here for someone who has tried self hosting git and has found it a pita to maintain...i want to know what is it that devs are flocking to other platforms and how are we sure that they won't pull all the red card signals that github is said to pull off.
- thyristan 3mo agoHave been self-hosting GitLab for my org a few years by now, with quite a few users (>800 atm). Updates are automatic via the GitLab Omnibus package repos. Once or twice per year some update requires intervention. Otherwise, nothing bad happens. Very happy so far. Biggest problem at the moment is that AI scrapers (curse them and their owners, pox be upon their houses!) sometimes bring things to a crawl. But nothing that a few firewall rules and anoubis won't solve.
- greenavocado 3mo agoIf you are running an org you should be putting all your private services behind netbird or tailscale at minimum. Zero public infra exposure beyond them.
- thyristan 3mo agoThe service isn't supposed to be private, some repos are intentionally public. And including all external collaborators in some VPN scheme is not possible at that scale.
- greenavocado 3mo agoSorry, I assumed you were running a typical corp
- notpushkin 3mo agoForgejo is fairly simple to run – way lighter and simpler than GitLab even. (GitLab is quite okay, too!) If you want a hosted service, go for Codeberg. It’s run by a German non-profit (so it’ll be hard to bite and switch OpenAI-style). Only free/open source projects are accepted, though.
- Capitanai 3mo ago[flagged]
- fragmede 3mo agoNo affiliation, but http://code.storage http://code.storage gets my vote.
- dachworker 3mo ago[dead]
- frabcus 3mo agoI'm trying sourcehut at the moment https://sourcehut.org/ https://sourcehut.org/ and it seems really good - very simple and fast. And does seem to be free for hosting open source projects. Anyone else used it and have thoughts on it?
- notpushkin 3mo agoI really really love it but I just can’t get myself to embrace the email workflow. Maybe I’ll make a “pull requests for git.sr.ht” app one day!
- Hendrikto 3mo agoI really do not like that Drew (the owner and developer) is extremely dogmatic and political, and likes to get involved in what is and is jot allowed to be hosted on “his” forge. Imo, service providers should be neutral and get involved only as far as required by law. I would not trust Sourcehut. If Drew decides one day that he does not like you, your politics, or your industry, he will just cut you off. That is no foundation to build on.
- bradley_taunt 3mo agoI use it as my main forge and could not be happier. It also seems to be the only forge that allows its web frontend to work with JS disabled. (That I am aware of)
- takaki2 3mo ago[flagged]
- ciefa 3mo agoI'm hosting my own Forgejo instance and it's great. Coolify as well :) It's fun!
- qweqwe14 3mo agoYou'd be surprised how easy it is to self-host GitLab with Docker Compose, GitLab has an official "Omnibus" Docker image. No need to handicap yourself with Gitea/Forgejo/whatever, you can just use an industry-standard platform without much effort. Hardware requirements are nowhere close to high either.
- inigyou 3mo agoWhat makes GitLab "industry-standard" and Forgejo not?
- ncphillips 3mo agoI don’t know if Gitlab is an industry standard, but I’ve never heard of Forgejo. I worked for a headless CMS company and the only three providers we ever had requests for were GitHub, Bitbucket, and Gitlab. Gitlab is big enough to be generally adopted by governments. I think it’s fair to say it’s at least a lot closer to being an industry standard then Forgejo. (Aside: I would likely never use Gitlab by choice, and would consider looking into Forgejo)
- inigyou 3mo agoProbably because those are service providers and Forgejo is software. Same reason people ask for Microsoft account and Google account integration, but nobody ever asks for Linux account integration in your cloud software.
- 8organicbits 3mo agoForgejo is mention in the article, it powers Codeberg. I agree it doesn't have high adoption, but the news is that it is growing.
- Hendrikto 3mo agoPopularity.
- dijksterhuis 3mo agoone reason (among others) — compliance. a corporate/b2b saas environment without stuff like this is often a non starter. - SOC2 - ISO/IEC 27001:2022 - ISO/IEC 27017:2015 - ISO/IEC 27018:2019 - VPAT 508 https://about.gitlab.com/security/ https://about.gitlab.com/security/ no mention of these on the forejo site, so i can’t put “our internal software is all SOC2/ISO NUMBER compliant” as a bullet point on a slide deck. it is theatre. but it’s industry theatre.
- My_Name 3mo agoAs a developer who ditched Github and decided to self-host, there is only one reason. It's not technical difficulties, politics, nor AI. It's Microsoft. Like Apple, Facebook etc, I have a deep loathing for Microsoft and I want to remove as much of it from my life as I am able. I now run Git on a pi using Gitea and Forgejo. I can now upload files of a size unheard of in GitHub, Claude can make a PR by itself that I can diff, edit, then merge, and even with the mighty power of a single pi 3b+, it feels more responsive.
- pbiggar 3mo agoMicrosoft's human rights stain will take decades to wear off (just like Meta, Google, and Amazon).
- surgical_fire 3mo agoEh, the stain will only grow worse over time. They certainly are not doing anything to start bleaching it right now.
- franktankbank 3mo agoMicrosoft is a mafia that sometimes produces code (poorly).
- MrDrMcCoy 3mo agoWhy Gitea _and_ Forgejo, rather than just one or the other?
- My_Name 3mo agoI misremembered. I considered both and settled on Forgejo. It was a while ago now and as Forgejo is a Gitea fork my mind must have conflated remaining hook names (hooks/pre-receive.d/gitea, post-receive.d/gitea, update.d/gitea) with Forgejo. Thank you for the clarification opportunity
- inkysigma 3mo agoGiven more code hosting services, I wonder if we'll also see a corresponding increase in the number of alternative VCS or if git is legitimately very entrenched as a tool. I am just being a bit grouchy but I do wish there was more development of alternative VCSs. pijul at least looks cool even if I don't know if it scales well. Git LFS can be somewhat finicky to work with so maybe we'll see perforce like systems. It's obviously not the most practical thing to have a variety of very different VCS's and definitely a PITA to learn multiple tools but git does seem somewhat suboptimal given the number of anecdotes about people just re-cloning the repo. I was recently trying jj and it seemed to work well (excluding the lack of LFS support) so here's hoping.
- erlau 3mo agoI do think git serves a lot of people's needs very well. I see a lot of people being quite happy with direct github alternatives. Self hosting may become more popular too, I hadn't heard too many self hosting stories until recently. If LFS is your pain (I cannot stand to use git lfs) I have to mention oxen, which is open source and self hostable, but also has a hosted option. It handles large files right out of the gate and doing so faster than everyone else is one of its core missions. Still using github for distribution though, lol, see https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen https://github.com/Oxen-AI/Oxen. I am also curious about where jj will go, its philosophy is really interesing, and sounds promising.
- intunderflow 3mo agoFYI that Codeberg is currently holding a vote to broadly ban projects written mostly using AI, so its not a neutral space for hosting your projects like GitHub: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253 https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253 https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912 https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912
- tovej 3mo agoWell, that's a good thing. Being "neutral" _is_ taking a side. It means you're taking an amoral stance even in big questions. Every organization has a stance. We're just become used to companies that take a stance of "as long as we get paid".
- sunaookami 3mo agoNo, being "neutral" is not "taking a side", that's the definition of the word. If you pre-moderate you open a whole can of worms. What will they ban next? This makes me not want to use Codeberg ever because it's not plannable.
- bogwog 3mo agoIf you're going to jump ship because they're banning AI slop, then I think the feature is working as intended.
- cmrdporcupine 3mo agoCalling all uses of such tooling "AI slop" right away shows your hand as only holding a blunt, crude, instrument. Many of us are capable of more nuance that that and don't apply the label "slop" to everything where generative AI is involved. The linked Mastodon shows no nuance, and neither does your reply. Two things can be true at once: GitHub has degraded into a "slop" cesspit and that agentic tooling has legitimate use cases. Finally people can also legitimately object to a host mandating what tools can be used in authorship even if they don't particularly care for those tools themselves.
- submeta 3mo agoFor those who moved away from GitHub: do you miss the social/discovery side of it? I mean things like comments on issues/PRs, stars, followers, finding existing repos, seeing which projects are popular, and getting drive-by contributions. Or does that matter less than I imagine once you self-host and mirror public repos back to GitHub/Codeberg?
- janeway 3mo agoI used to love browsing GitHub Explore Trending but in the last two years it is almost exclusively AI apps that are slight improvement on the previous trending page of AI apps. GitHub explore could be way more interesting with a simple filter algorithm.
- saltanatt 3mo ago[dead]
- j45 3mo agoGithub for open source was always my favourite part of it. Github for private repos has long had security issues, every time a serious issue announced it makes me wonder how long it's quietly existed and been exploited, and how many other holes are currently exploited that aren't well known. Before github, people hosted their own repos all the time. Learning about alternatives, even if they aren't for you in all cases, is still worth it. Has anyone had any issues with codeberg or other alternatives?
- glub103011 3mo ago[dead]
- getcrunk 3mo agoToday GitHub blocked me until I turned Apple private relay off. I wasn’t logged in
- akimbostrawman 3mo agoSwitching from one centralized git repository to another that also injects political messaging into URLs without consents.
- RedCinnabar 3mo agoWhat do you mean by that? Are you referring to Codeberg? Out the frying pan straight to the fire...
- ahk-dev 3mo ago[flagged]
- virajk_31 3mo agoGithub getting bloated!? after MS?
- MintsJohn 3mo agoI tried codeberg, used it a year, then early this year in all their wisdom codeberg decided to show adverserial random text instead of my repo, reporteldly to mess up llm training to user agents they weren't sure were human. Codeberg had one job, serve my repo, it didn't do that, when brought up, I was told it was a feature not a bug, they could maybe whitelist me but that wasn't my problem, it was that random people got totally blocked or from accessing the repo. I moved back to github.
- grayhatter 3mo agoThat's the reason I left as well. I complained, was told I need to drop the attitude, or leave. so I left. must be harder than I think running a src forge
- duttish 3mo agoToday it appears you have two options 1) Anubis or similar 2) Accept that 90-95% of your traffic is LLM scrapers fetching every file for every commit for every repo etc etc. There's some comments above with specific lists.
- grayhatter 3mo agoI built bot detection into the web framework I wrote. It's blocking well over >90% of the abuse. The secret 3rd option is write some code.
- hackthemack 3mo agoIs your complaint about Anubis? I see the "checking if you are human" kind of text too when going to codeberg, but it is usually only a second or two. It is because I run a bit of obfuscation and resistance to browser finger printing. But you find seeing the text for a couple of seconds too annoying to use codeberg? Maybe it is more than 2 seconds for you? Everyone has their views on what is acceptable in the world and what they will put up with. Just, to my point of view, I think codeberg is trying to fight the good fight in keeping llms from crawling their website.
- josefritzishere 3mo agoWouldn't it be nice to have a repo which AI couldn't access?
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- bitbasher 3mo agoI have been self hosting my repositories on my own VPS using nothing but Git itself (you don't need to install anything else). Sharing write access is a bit of a pain, but I tend to work on things alone anyway.
- nocloudflare 3mo ago“Verifying you are human” I’m gone. Any site that does that. I’m gone. I’m not waiting around for your bullshit. It’s so scammy and dumb looking anyway. Cloudflare ruined half the web. Codeberg might be cool? I’ll never know because they use Cloudflare. Cloudflare makes me leave websites every day and never return to them. Dumbest technology ever implemented. It’s joke anyway - DDoS is easily handled far more elegantly.
- lachiflippi 3mo agoCodeberg doesn't use Cloudflare.
- chuckadams 3mo agoNo mention yet of Radicle? I'm curious if anyone's tried it for a real-world project.
- pluto_modadic 3mo agoit's definitely a cool esoteric thing :) I bet some other features would make it gain traction.
- pedda8862 3mo agoI see a lot of self hosting based a whatever solution but I don’t see any nice GitHub proxies to avoid rate limits while just simple reusing actions. I use zot within my ci for containers and an apt proxy but I’m missing a solution for github api calls for my ci runners
- dmezzetti 3mo agoThe recent abrupt removal of the ability to see who has starred a project isn't a good move. Things like this certainly erode trust. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/201209 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/201209
- huflungdung 3mo ago[dead]
- acedTrex 3mo agoI left because Github became too LLM obsessed and I find that to not align with my personal ideals. Its not really deeper than that. The programming community will continue to splinter more into those that care about the craft and those that only care about outcomes.
- ece 3mo agoIs there a bsky or mastodon extension for serving git repos and commits? Would be interesting to see this.
- mxuribe 3mo agoDoesn't tangled do that (at least for the ATproto)? See https://tangled.org/ https://tangled.org/
- markstos 3mo agoI co-maintain a popular Linux launcher, Fuzzel, on Codeberg. We have no shortage of contributors despite not being on Github and the quality of contributors there is fairly high. In the past there were performance problems, but it's worked well enough lately. My personal repos are on Gitlab. The UI is cluttered, but it works well enough.
- nekusar 3mo agoYeah over on Mastodon, there's a few really nasty threads about Codeberg requesting voting for approved folks to ban ALL "AI". Of course, it aint going well. https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912 https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912
- hananova 3mo agoWhat do you mean, it ain’t going well? It looks like the measure is going to pass, that’s the ideal outcome.
- kittikitti 3mo agoI can barely hold the attention of someone, developers included, when discussing my coding projects. I cannot imagine how difficult it would be if it wasn't even on Github. I'm a small developer, I don't really have the privilege to choose.
- liviux 3mo agoFake news
- zgucci 3mo agoI hope some developers will see this message. I know that you work however you wish and you do what you wanna do, but there is a lot of people that will refuse to signup for GitHub (for many reasons), and in consequence, won't contribute to your project. I'm sorry if it sounded a bit off or I offended someone by stating this.
- pamcake 3mo agoAnyone using or been trying out Radicle recently? https://radicle.dev https://radicle.dev EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147603
- jarekdy 3mo agoIf the goal is lowering GitHub dependence without going full self-host, Buddy has built-in Git hosting alongside its CI/CD, so repos and pipelines live in the same place.
- imrishav 3mo agoAgree with this
- DekryptLabs 3mo ago[flagged]