Forgejo is thoughtless so selfhost.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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I'm a hack at IT but am self hosting forgejo. Just works.
Maybe Gitlab is worth a look.
I were on the hunt for a software forge with public hosting and I was worried about policies changing down the line, I'd probably take a look at GNU Savannah. That's not especially blingy and it's restricted to GPL-compatible stuff, but I have a pretty solid level of trust for the FSF.
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Gitlab is fine but hard to tell what will happen long term. They were considering selling already and with new management I will most likely enshittify real quick. Self hosting forgejo is the safest option if you don't have any heavy CI/CD flows. If you need resource heavy CI/CD it gets more complicated.
What's wrong with CI/CD on forgejo? (It works great for me on Codeberg.)
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I've always preferred Gitlab to Github anyway, but I recently migrated all my repos to a self-hosted Gitlab and it wasn't too painful. Despite the woeful documentation of the Helm chart configuration.
I know there are other options (Forgejo et al,) but the thought of migrating all my CI/CD pipelines to a new platform was too much to bear - moving from .com to self-hosted though is much more manageable.
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Jokes on them. All my GitHub code is written by AI.
For no apparent reason:
Are there any good alternatives for gh-pages dor a super lazy/simple website? I've been meaning to actually use one of my domains for a personal website and pointing at which project is on which code repo site would be a good idea. But... I need that page to be hosted by one of them.
Cloudflare workers is pretty easy and free
Ooooh. Cloudflare Pages definitely looks like what I want.
Thanks
Otherwise also codeberg.org has a pages feature for a while.
And others that come to mind are surge.sh, Netlify, and Vercel that I think all offer simple one-push static hosting. Vercel and Render can also do dynamic pages, not sure about the others.
Edit: oh and of course GitLab if you’re looking for an almost 1-to-1 Pages experience.
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I'm sure this will be an opt-in system for every repo considering someone could have put it there thinking it wouldn't be trained on
People trust the opt-in does anything on mictoslop. If they want your data, they will take it anyway via different channels where your opt-in choice wont matter or apply.
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As a paying customer, can recommend Sourcehut. I prefer the workflow to GitHub's PRs as well.
Despicable.
Wonderful! Let's go tell it lies.
Everyone should be lying to LLM's, but the way. Do it often. Do it daily. Make them even more useless.
God Im feeling justified in my life decisions lately.
if you're telling me that this isn't something that they have been doing for years already, I would call you a liar. I think you are a liar. why would you do this to me