2w ago

Between Forgejo, Gitea, Gitlab etc., which do you prefer and why?

If possible, also mention what the use case is (ex. Contributing to a project, hosting your code privately, workplace, etc.)

Edit: Removed Codeberg from the post title as I mixed things up

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Codeberg is an instance, not software. It runs on Forgejo.
Forgejo is a hard fork of Gitea.
So my answer is Forgejo.
- Thanks, I've edited the title accordingly
It's my turn to do the obligatory mention of SourceHut :)
It is in alpha, but it is really promising. It is going all-in on email based git workflows (which was the original way of doing it before the github-style PR based workflow). I love the style and it's minimalism - but don't let that fool you, it has many features that you might not see at first glance. Imagine if cgit or gitweb was extended into a software forge with built-in support for email patches, mailing lists, issue tracking and CI.
If you are the type of person who attracts garbage issue tickets and often has to reject low-effort PRs on your projects, it forces a really good minimum entrance bar. Of course this comes at the cost of visibility of your projects, less networking effect, so I would suggest to not use it if you want easy visibility and 3rd party contribution on your projects.
Currently I use Codeberg and Forgejo. The former for cloud backup and the latter for local backup.
Forgejo. Initially went with Gitea and made the switch because why not.
To me, everything works perfectly, from basic git stuff to CI. It was only for my hledger stuff since it's way too sensitive to be on any other machine but mine, but now I use forgejo way more than GH.
Work is gitlab, private is Forgejo.
Gitlab. Was on gitea, but it lacked CI integration (not sure if that has changed) and generally felt less polished. Gitlab is used at work, so its nice having something familiar.
- Funny, I switched to Forgejo because Gitlab stopped running smoothly in four years between trials. I don’t understand why it’s such a hog
  
  It is a bit of a hog at times. But it hasnt been bad enough for me to switch. Does forgejo do CI?
Forgejo as private instance, mirror important stuff to Codeberg. This way you can also restrict access to your private instance while have your code publicly available on Codeberg.
I like codeberg simply because it is pronounceable.
Gitea once now Forgejo.
Framagit uses Gitlab
Notabug uses gogs

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