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Gitea launches cloud service to provide a secure alternative to GitHub and GitLab (about.gitea.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (12 children)

From my personal experience running GitLab and Forgejo (Gitea Drop-In replacement/Fork):

  • Gitea/Forgejo is easier to get running
  • UI is less bloated/faster
  • GitLab redesigned their UI and imo it's shit now
  • No features locked behind a "Pro" Version (Pull or Bidirectional mirrors are for example unavailable on GitLab self-hosted unless you shell out for premium)
  • Gitea Actions is a lot more intuitive than GitLab CI, this is likely personal preference but it's still an important factor
[–] bionicjoey 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have no experience with forgejo but I agree with all of the above in terms of gitea v gitlab

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Forgejo has different development priorities but feature wise they should be identical since the Forgejo devs also push their code upstream into Gitea

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not anymore, since as of October Gitea requires a copyright assignment for contributions. More info here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

huh, would you look at that. Pretty stupid move and something that makes this entire thing even more suspect. Glad I picked Forgejo over Gitea

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't have a horse in the race when I was looking to self-host git, but I quickly backed Forgejo when the news came out re: Gitea

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