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I started moving my repos off GitHub weeks ago, but I'm still waiting for a "good" GitHub competitor to appear. GitLab sucks (if you're not a company and like unnecessary complexity), Codeberg is slow and limited (and has weird mods), Sourcehut UX is weird (and being DDoS'd), Gitea Cloud didn't even have a working login page last time I tried, BitBucket isn't the worst but it has quite a few problems (& isn't set up for public repos/search). Please can somebody start a simple, reliable hosted GitHub alternative? I'd pay for it...
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If you want collaboration for your team, then a small vm with forgejo (if you need PR) is enough. It can be behind a vpn if you do not want to bother with securing it against the whole internet.

If you want to make your repos public, you could use cgit and the like.




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