The time was literally 8 years ago, but sure, better late than never.
Only since Microsoft acquired it.
It has all been downhill from there
No, it hasn’t. It only has since Microsoft bought it.
You shoulda been looking elsewhere at least a year ago by now.
codeberg
… isn’t an alternative if you’re looking for availability.
It is an alternative for a lot of other reasons and I love it dearly, but Codeberg is literally three donated servers in a single data center with some volunteers maintaining them. Some time ago the power went out and Codeberg was down for seven hours.
Please go ahead and join Codeberg, but manage your expectations.
Some time ago the power went out and Codeberg was down for seven hours.
Still keeps one sigma more uptime than Github tbh.
Self hosted forgejo on-prem HA with cloud mirroring, backups, and failover
Codeberg itself is fine for hobby-grade tho; enterprise needs to start taking ownership of their own shit. Deploying local CI is a buy-once-cry-one pitch and gives you better performance anyways.
Or, use git decentralized; how it was built to be used.
As a solo dev, working from home, the real reason I use Github is for off site backup.
Back in the SVN days we hosted our own server for a bunch of years, then moved to one of the many paid SVN hosts that existed.
I think I’m going to spin up another VPS and self host Forgejo at this point (or see if I can add it to one of my existing servers).
I just got a local Forgejo instance working and the CI flexibility it add alone is a revelation. I can finally just run CI without worrying about GitHub’s supply-chain footguns.
Enterprise is on the same boat we’re all in - you can’t run locally if you can’t afford components
And the Epstein class decided we aren’t allowed to own computers that they don’t control anymore, so they’re building really big ones with agents that monitor us, make sure we don’t find out anything we aren’t supposed to know
Thats what they get for training on my code
Is your code free for others to do whatever the fuck they want to with it? : codeberg
Do you want to put certain restrictions (eg financial)? Gitlab
Is your code free of AI-slop? Codeberg.
Is your code a project to be passed around like a slut at an AI-themed orgy with no limits or consent? Github.
