Comment by jazzyjackson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jazzyjackson | Hacker News Reader

From the FAQ, forˈd͡ʒe.jo, to my midwestern ear, "4 Jay yo", Esperantese for Forge. A fork of Gitea [0] but managed via a non profit, no premium upsells, all freely licensed [1](GPL) etc.

Good to see their community outreach is via Matrix and Mastadon. My kind of nerds.

Apparently this is what Codeberg is running out, if you click . Looks like gitea/github to me, nothing wrong with that [2] source code is available from the little branch icon in the top right corner, hosted on codeberg which TIL is a forgejo instance [3]

[0] https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/

[1] https://forgejo.org/2024-08-gpl/

[2] https://v10.next.forgejo.org/explore/repos

[3] https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo

> no premium upsells

So.. like gitea?

From my understanding the fork was done because gitea created a company to build custom-features for companies if they ask. Not really many indicators for a rugpull

The pricing page (https://about.gitea.com/pricing/) talks about paywalled "Enhanced enterprise-level features and experiences". Are you sure that doesn't count as a premium upsell?

It's more like "forge place" in the same way that kafejo (cafe) is "coffee place".

That's English for you, same word is usable for describing action, place and the furnace.

It's actually more like "distant gay" (and would be pronounced with a hard "g") because it's a (presumably deliberate) misspelling of forĝejo.

Actually, they thought that the Esperanto word for forge, is «forgejo». When somebody pointed out, that «forgejo» (fora gejo -> forgejo) is «faraway gay person», it was already too late. So, now they say that it is inspired by «forĝejo», which is the word for forge.

I was kind of passively wondering the other day what the main differences were between gitea and forgejo at this point, since they've been separate projects for a bit now. It seems there aren't any direct comparisons I could find, though.

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