Forgejo is great.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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They endlessly tooted their horn about their diversity and fully remote operations. So this is pretty rich.
“This isn’t cost cutting” Oh, fuck off. This is trimming the fat before they try to look for a buyer again.
Still hosting gitlab.
The CI on forgejo is, unfortunately, nowhere near as good.
Given how long gitlab has been struggling to fix basic bugs and instead creeping into features - hello-oo bloated and slow vscode-like web editor and non-ephemeral runner management - I'm not sure they have any staff left to let go. But it's nice they found an excuse to shed their remaining talent and avoid complete stock devaluation.
The planning is happening openly, including a voluntary separation window.
"We don't understand how the Dead Sea Effect works, and we want to super-size the damage.". Okay, Bill.
Is every mother fucker just going bat shit insane this year? Goddamn it.
This reads almost like a parody.
They once were a promising alternative to MS GitHub but now they’re going down the same route.
Gitlab CEO - 16 years in Microsoft, Gitlab CTO - 13 years in Microsoft
Can we say Microsoft Gitlab ?
Gitlab isn't owned or controlled by Microsoft
No one claimed it was.
Oh god that is so cringe. Just getting into coding i have no idea what to use as an online repo. I dont want to use github because microsoft but i want the basic repo collaboration features to be available cloning, pull requests, issues etc.
If you don't want to host something yourself, check codeberg