I use an ftp hosted on a nintendo 3ds interfaced with an old chromebook running FreeDOS

Short and sweet. I definitely recommend Codeberg, but it's only intended for FOSS projects. I believe this is loosely enforced (if at all) but if you use it for private or closed-source projects you are technically breaking their TOS.

I see it's time again to shill for Fossil: the best VCS for solo devs and self-hosted teams. It's config can be a little arcane (tcl is back baby!) but it's very customizable, yet also opinionated where it counts. You get a built-in wiki, code hosting, forum, chat, ticketing and bug tracking, and it's a single executable that can even host itself.

Repositories are also single files (sqlite databases), so I keep my primary repos in my syncthing folder. They autoreplicate to all my devices, where I clone and checkout them into my dev directory. No central host or clouds required!

https://codeberg.org/

I’ve been using self-hosted ForgeJo for a while now, and I haven’t missed anything from GitHub/Gitlab yet.

I use gitlab because the company I work for had on-prem Gitlab and I figured it was a sensible business model (selling to firms who need private services for compliance reasons)

Learned about a new one today...

FOSS Hub: www.fosshub.com

I’m not a license expert, but I’d start by searching for selfhosted options and go from there. You don’t need a server to have functionality like bug tracking and such. Just make sure you have multiple levels of backups on different types of media and at least one that’s offsite in case of natural disaster (like a fire).

I’ll let someone else talk about features and the like of different options.

No, one of these three fails to include a libre software licence text file, we do not control it.

Thankfully, I am not at that point of desperation to consider Atlassian a valid alternative.

Just to add to the fray, here's what I've found:

• Forgejo - install on a PC at home - works well, but you can't easily share your code with people outside your home. (https://forgejo.org)

• Codeberg - runs Forgejo under the hood - now you can share with people - but you really ought to donate to them if you use their service. (https://codeberg.org)

• PikaPods - will host a Gitea instance for you in their cloud - you can share code this way too - costs about $2 USD per month and is dead simple to set up. (https://www.pikapods.com/apps)

• VPS - go set up your own virtual private server (on a free Oracle server, or other various hosts out there) and install Forgejo on that - more complicated, hope you like securing servers - share as you like. Free or maybe $$$.

Have fun!

I use gitea for my personal projects, though if you’re not already using it, forgejo (a fork) may be better (I don’t know).

I also self-host a forgejo as a local backup as well as codeberg, so if codeberg ever goes down for some reason or another or if my internet is down, I still have a backup of my projects.

I've also heard of this: https://sourcehut.org/

grumbles about vertical videos

yeah it was codeberg for me

Bitbucket lol .I would rather not.

I used to love gitlab (great CI!) but the quality is really going down. Everything is slow and there UI is full of bugs (god I hate there virtual srolll in epics).

There is also sourcehut. They have the best CI for me but sadly issue / merge request management is mail based.

Gitea looks like it is going the gitlab way with enterprise support and cloud because they need to make money.

Forgejo is cool (how do you prononce it?) but I am really sad they based there CI on github action.

I selfhost gitea. That, plus Tailscale, has been really good.

I've just migrated most of my repos from Codeberg to Sourcehut (sr.ht) and I really like it. I've got nothing against Codeberg or Forgejo, they're awesome, but I just really like the simple design of Sourcehut.

The git send-email workflow was new to me, but I started liking it fast! I've never really enjoyed the web-based MR/PR workflow of GitHub anyway (read: it feels very slow).

Sourcehuts CI system if also really nice overall, although there are some things I miss from the great CI that GitLab has. Mostly I miss only running pipelines when tags are pushed, and stuff like that.

What's a good alternative that allows private repos? I've not yet got a home lab setup yet but I still have some repos I want to keep private since they're pretty dogshit so don't want them to publicly represent me but they still mean something to me personally or are for something to reference when doing newer projects.

I have an old Bitbucket that still works, but I've migrated to Codeberg. I'm also running a self-hosted Forgejo for personal stuff.

personally i use codeberg now but i still have a softspot for beanstalk. i started using it back when private repos on github weren't free. it's primarily a paid service but i just have a soft spot for it (maybe it's just the nostalgia talking).

Codeberg seems like the best option ATM for me: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws.md

https://tangled.sh/ is looking like an interesting alternative imo.

It uses ATProto (the bluesky protocol) and allows you to self host the git part and/or your personal data (e.g. comments that you leave on other repos). It's still very much in development as is the ATProto itself, so it doesn't seem mature enough for serious use yet. ATProto does for example not handle private accounts/posts yet which means that all your tangled repos have to be public.

For personal use gitolite works pretty well.

I'm looking at moving my repositories to AWS S3. That doesn't give me extra functionality beyond publishing my repositories, but the reality is that I've yet to see any pull requests or much beyond a couple of issues.

I'm loathe to jump into the next big thing, only for it to go broke, or get bought by some random company and get enshitified.

I like Fossil ( fossil-scm.org ). Sync public repos to chiselapp.com, keep private ones on my ssd or sync to my vps shell account. Resistant to US cloud takedown, e.g. if you're running logistics to defend Greenland 😉

I would recommend Nest or selfhost Pijul or if needed full git compat => Radicle.

Man I rely on GitHub pages though

Swapping github (MS) for bitbucket (Atlassian) is a completely sideways move. Atlassian will fuck you just as hard as MS will.

Or Forgejo

I really like Source Hut. It forces you to learn how to use git with its built in patch and send via email system. Also they host gemini small web.

Forgejo is cool but I've been waiting for federation for years now.

the video isnt playing for me, but i assume git.gay will be proclaimed as the best github alternative

No one talking about Gitea?

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

been selfhosting gitlab for about 6 years now. I'm happy with it.

I've been self-hosting forgejo for about 2 months for 3 people. Its been great so hard. We haven't set up actions yet so I can't talk to that capability, but everything has been great otherwise