Thankfully, I am not at that point of desperation to consider Atlassian a valid alternative.

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yeah it was codeberg for me

Just to add to the fray, here's what I've found:

• Forgejo - install on a PC at home - works well, but you can't easily share your code with people outside your home. (https://forgejo.org/)

• Codeberg - runs Forgejo under the hood - now you can share with people - but you really ought to donate to them if you use their service. (https://codeberg.org/)

• PikaPods - will host a Gitea instance for you in their cloud - you can share code this way too - costs about $2 USD per month and is dead simple to set up. (https://www.pikapods.com/apps)

• VPS - go set up your own virtual private server (on a free Oracle server, or other various hosts out there) and install Forgejo on that - more complicated, hope you like securing servers - share as you like. Free or maybe $$$.

Have fun!

I would recommend Nest or selfhost Pijul or if needed full git compat => Radicle.

I've also heard of this: https://sourcehut.org/

I also self-host a forgejo as a local backup as well as codeberg, so if codeberg ever goes down for some reason or another or if my internet is down, I still have a backup of my projects.

I use gitea for my personal projects, though if you’re not already using it, forgejo (a fork) may be better (I don’t know).

Bitbucket lol .I would rather not.

I used to love gitlab (great CI!) but the quality is really going down. Everything is slow and there UI is full of bugs (god I hate there virtual srolll in epics).

There is also sourcehut. They have the best CI for me but sadly issue / merge request management is mail based.

Gitea looks like it is going the gitlab way with enterprise support and cloud because they need to make money.

Forgejo is cool (how do you prononce it?) but I am really sad they based there CI on github action.

Codeberg seems like the best option ATM for me: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws.md

I've just migrated most of my repos from Codeberg to Sourcehut (sr.ht) and I really like it. I've got nothing against Codeberg or Forgejo, they're awesome, but I just really like the simple design of Sourcehut.

The git send-email workflow was new to me, but I started liking it fast! I've never really enjoyed the web-based MR/PR workflow of GitHub anyway (read: it feels very slow).

Sourcehuts CI system if also really nice overall, although there are some things I miss from the great CI that GitLab has. Mostly I miss only running pipelines when tags are pushed, and stuff like that.

I have an old Bitbucket that still works, but I've migrated to Codeberg. I'm also running a self-hosted Forgejo for personal stuff.

I selfhost gitea. That, plus Tailscale, has been really good.

I like Fossil ( fossil-scm.org ). Sync public repos to chiselapp.com, keep private ones on my ssd or sync to my vps shell account. Resistant to US cloud takedown, e.g. if you're running logistics to defend Greenland 😉

What's a good alternative that allows private repos? I've not yet got a home lab setup yet but I still have some repos I want to keep private since they're pretty dogshit so don't want them to publicly represent me but they still mean something to me personally or are for something to reference when doing newer projects.

https://tangled.sh/ is looking like an interesting alternative imo.

It uses ATProto (the bluesky protocol) and allows you to self host the git part and/or your personal data (e.g. comments that you leave on other repos). It's still very much in development as is the ATProto itself, so it doesn't seem mature enough for serious use yet. ATProto does for example not handle private accounts/posts yet which means that all your tangled repos have to be public.

personally i use codeberg now but i still have a softspot for beanstalk. i started using it back when private repos on github weren't free. it's primarily a paid service but i just have a soft spot for it (maybe it's just the nostalgia talking).

i'm ootl about github. is this because microsoft is taking it over proper?

For personal use gitolite works pretty well.