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Codeberg is a community-driven, non-profit software development platform operated by Codeberg e.V. and centered around Codeberg.org, a Gitea-based software forge.

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Welcome aboard everyone joining Codeberg after the recent news! (piefed.ca)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/codeberg@programming.dev

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Codeberg is an amazing friendly open-source alternative to GitHub.

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[–] BB_C@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Be realistic. Filling out forms to get CI runners means no serious users will be attracted. They can just go to GitLab instead. And even then, a migration wouldn't be fully seamless.

Those are immediate show-stoppers before we get to contributor pool sizes and network effects.

My purist young self picked Gitorious over GitHub. I even vaguely remember the KDE presence there, so it was a trusted host with big(ish) betters on it. But it closed shop soon after, and that was a quick learned lesson.

I will be more intrigued by the first jj-native forge when it appears. I may even help alpha test it, as it may bring a breath of fresh air to the space, unless it's going to be AI buzz-filled. In that case to the ~~trash~~ blocklist it will go.

[–] alienscience@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

Filling out forms to get CI runners means no serious users will be attracted.

I think this will have opposite effect. Only serious users will be willing to fill out forms and casual users will be put off by the bureaucracy. I agree that it is a downside though. In a perfect world, there would be no forms to fill in.

The problem with CI is that the internet is full of not-nice people who will use free compute to mine crypto. Gitlab had problems with this abuse and requires credit card details.