I guess I'm out of the loop: why do ppl hate forgejo?
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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Yeah, this is news to me. I think Codeberg runs on Forgejo, and just the other day people were singing its praises when GitHub became part of Microsoft's AI team. This feels like a sudden shift.
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Probably just the weird name. It makes it feel like someone’s weekend personal project.
I use it to self-host my own code and it works great, I’m totally moved off GitHub now.
I don't even know how to pronounce it. Forge Joe? For Gay Ho?
Any product name that needs a voice file to explain itself is a bad name 🤦 what were they thinking?
Rijndael is pronounced AES.
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They probably don't. If you see a sudden FUD, it could be astroturfing.
Personally uaong forgejo myself and it has been smooth sailing for ages! This is the first time ive ever seen people taking a stance against it, though the ones in the comments sidnt seem to have a good argument.
I've never seen anyone hate on forgejo.
Why do you think prople hate Forgejo?
I hadn't heard of Forgejo, although I realize now that I have seen repositories using it before. I think it's cool that they even have statically linked binaries of it but it's a bit concerning that like an entire web server is built in because what if there's vulnerabilities? I guess if you regularly stayed up to date it's not too bad then.
Edit: Oh, sounds like it's a fork of Gitea which I have heard of before, interesting.
i mean, the web server in question is the Go standard library. if there is a vuln in there we have bigger problems, considering it's also used by the docker binary.
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I still find the name weird. Let's do something fun here; Comment what YOU think ForgeJo should be called instead
YoForge
Read like "Science, bitch!"
Forge
On one hand, I kind of agree, on another that is at least somewhat a generic term for a gitlab/gitea/github/sourceforce/forgejo/etc, so it might be harder to search.
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For Joe
For Gay Joe
Both are fine by me
FoSho! They were so close!
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Is forgejo federated yet?
Not yet They are working on it You can keep an eye on the development through monthly reports https://forgejo.org/tag/report/
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Nice, hope they set up their own branding on their instance at some point
I apparently got blocked by their anti bot system on mobile
I'd have a read but I'm in the UK....
I'm in the UK and was fine for me. Have you left your porn vpn on?
You sure that the issue is geographical? I'm in the UK and was able to access the site without using a VPN or anything like that.
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