I don’t think you understand what I mean. It has its “main instance” which most people use. It’s just open source so you have the option of self hosting.
I was on GitLab for a time (and still keep the account for following stuff and maybe contributions), but felt it wasn’t as free and community focused as I would have liked to, so I decided to move away and went to Gitea (the hosted instance), shortly after I discovered Codeberg which aligns with my ideals even more, so I went to try it and it stuck.
The UI isn’t that bad in my opinion and it’s more responsive than GitLab’s, so I appreciate it.
Not to say that it’s the perfect platform of course, at least not yet, I miss GitLab for the easy actions/CI and deployment of pages, but I’m hoping that Forgejo actions will land soon enough and make things better.
Note: recently I found out a userstyle that tries to modernize the UI by following a Material You-like interface called Gitea Modern, don’t know if it’s still holding up since it’s been archived
I wonder why people favor codeberg so much over things like gitlab. It has an ugly UI from ancient GitHub…
Codeberg is supposedly located in the EU while not requiring self-hosting, maybe that’s why.
Makes sense, though GitLab very much doesn’t require self-hosting
I know, but most people are lazy these days (and self-hosting stuff in the EU has become a legal battle against every week’s new rules).
I don’t think you understand what I mean. It has its “main instance” which most people use. It’s just open source so you have the option of self hosting.
I know, but most people won’t. :-)
I was on GitLab for a time (and still keep the account for following stuff and maybe contributions), but felt it wasn’t as free and community focused as I would have liked to, so I decided to move away and went to Gitea (the hosted instance), shortly after I discovered Codeberg which aligns with my ideals even more, so I went to try it and it stuck.
The UI isn’t that bad in my opinion and it’s more responsive than GitLab’s, so I appreciate it.
Not to say that it’s the perfect platform of course, at least not yet, I miss GitLab for the easy actions/CI and deployment of pages, but I’m hoping that Forgejo actions will land soon enough and make things better.
Note: recently I found out a userstyle that tries to modernize the UI by following a Material You-like interface called Gitea Modern, don’t know if it’s still holding up since it’s been archived
It’s not bad per se, but it leaves a lot to be desired and I think it’s about as responsive as GitLab.