I’ll go against the grain and say, Gitea is good but could use a lot of improvement. We use it at my company (startup) and find there are issues with migrations (up but no down), nonstandard web framework (go-macaron), and far too much logic implemented in go templates. There are also some strange issues with how errors are reported. Go is a fine language, but Gitea isn’t a great Go codebase.

Of course, we/I understand open source software isn’t perfect and such. That isn’t my point, I’m just saying that Gitea could use a complete rewrite, ideally using NextJS (if SSR is that important) or moving most if not all view logic into the client side, ditching go-macaron and xorm for something more widely used, relying less heavily on go templates, and doing error handling a bit better.

That said, Gitea does have a good excuse which is that it inherited many of these things from Gogs, from which it was forked.