Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

by Adi Gunawan 18 September 2026 2 min read 505x views

		Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
		24 points by dhruv3006 30 minutes ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 10 comments
		Github has been down consistently complete the past fewer months - does it make consciousness to move to alternatives?
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polycaster 9 minutes ago | [–]

https://forgejo.org/

mariocesar 5 minutes ago | | [–]

I answered this successful different thread, if you're already moving a ample GitHub organization, GitLab is the closest replacement successful position of features

A large positive is that it besides has an open-source Community Edition that you tin self-host

melezhik 24 minutes ago | | [–]

DSCI - http://deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io

- lightweight ( azygous binary written connected golang ) - ci runner embedded ( podman / docker ) - pipelines are written connected wide programming languages - nary YAML craziness - Perl/Python/Bash/Raku/Powershell/Php/Golang support - codification editor

ashton314 12 minutes ago | | [–]

Forgejo is splendid. Codeberg is simply a hosted instance; depending connected what you’re processing it whitethorn aliases whitethorn not beryllium a bully fresh for you. But the Forgejo stack itself is decently light-weight to self-host, very accelerated to use, and is easy to navigate.

quaintdev 11 minutes ago | | [–]

https://tangled.sh

dawn3727 23 minutes ago | | [–]

You mightiness want to see checking retired GitLab and Gitee.

teekert 12 minutes ago | | [–]

You mean Gitea [0], a community-driven fork is Forgejo. There was immoderate drama, person to admit is still don't really understand it (ask an llm I'd say). Codeberg [2] uses Forgejo and offers it arsenic a hosted service.

[0] https://about.gitea.com/

[1] https://forgejo.org/

[2] https://codeberg.org/

Havoc 8 minutes ago | | | [–]

Other measurement round. Forgejo is simply a fork of gitea

teekert 7 minutes ago | | | [–]

That's what I said, but so successful a very bad measurement :)

yogsototh 7 minutes ago | [–]

I personally big a forgejo lawsuit connected a backstage VPS ; truthful acold almost nary attraction isolated from protecting it from ai-crawlers[#1]. If you don't want the hassle, codeberg.org is simply a nationalist lawsuit of forgejo.

[#1]: https://her.esy.fun/posts/0031-how-i-protect-my-forgejo-inst...

I configure my section repositories to push connected some Github and my forgejo instance. I americium not utilizing the CI overmuch for my backstage projects (local tests are capable successful my case).