Comment on: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
Gitlab really sucks in my personal opinion, but what are your experiences with:Gogs https://gogs.io/ (this IS gitea btw)Forgejo https://forgejo.org/Self hosted or cloud hosted.
Comment on: GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
If by actively you mean: after 3 years, nothing shipped but federated stars (maybe, none of the links in that PR work or contain the content promised, Codeberg still has no actual support for federation with other instances). Forum entirely dormant since August 2025.
Comment on: GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Gitlab service may be unreliable, but Gitlab the product to deploy is extremely fine. Many third party instances of Gitlab that don't have problems that only happens at scale.
Comment on: Days without GitHub incidents
I think the correct middle ground is a site that lets you select the parts of the platform you rely on and ignore the others. For example, GitHub is "down" for me when I can't push, process PRs, or release packages, but I don't care about Actions or AI features.
Comment on: GitHub Is Down
Other CI/CD platforms usually push you towards using self-hosted mirrors for downloading large chunks of data (often aggressively so) but github is pretty hands off when it comes to actions. It is interesting to consider whether managing that traffic might be overwhelming them and if this can be traced back to a lack of forethought when it came to building out those tools.