gitea VS legit

Gitea - Another self-hosted Git service. [Git]

You can both be right. The title as it stands describes Codeberg as a "Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub" and I'd agree that it's a confusing title to say the least.

What we're really talking about here is a free-as-in-beer SaaS service that primarily caters to open source software repositories. This isn't clear in the title, because "Open Source" in this context can be read both as the back-end itself being open source (which it is), or more correctly -- but much less obviously -- that it's an alternative for open source repositories compared to GitHub.

Codeberg uses Forgejo[1] which in turn is a soft fork of Gitea[2], and anyone can use these two projects to self-host their proprietary codebase -- but the title for this post in no way makes it clear what Codeberg actually is.

One could literally just take the first thing you see on their website and it would be a much better description:

> Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for free and open source software, content and projects.

[1]: https://forgejo.org/

[2]: https://github.com/Codeberg-org/gitea

for those interested, the git server i'm using is legit by icyphox: https://github.com/icyphox/legit

i talk with icyphox sometimes & he's great. i'll bring this up & see if there's interest!!

I get asked this a lot and the answer is rather simple: build projects that scratch an itch. For example, I wanted a simple way to save articles I read online without using bookmarking services etc. and I built https://forlater.email. Another example: I wanted a nice UI for my self-hosted git repos and I didn't really like any of the existing ones, so I made one myself: https://github.com/icyphox/legit. It's really just that -- see what annoys you about everyday computing and attempt to solve it!