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I am this > < close to just running Gogs or Forgejo on some Hetzner boxes, quit my job, charge people for access. Why aren't there like 10 startups doing this yet? Please? I want to give you my money. Just give me a git host that doesn't suck. (All the current ones suck)

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Gitea has a paid plan. On Forgejo forums you can find 3rd party offers of paid hosting as well.

I actually tried to use Gitea and their login page wouldn't work, so that told me all I needed to know about them

Codeberg and Sourcehut are doing it for free, for open source. Corporate probably won't ever move off Github, because they need the prestige of using Github - the actual service quality is completely irrelevant. This is an aspect of the enshittocene epoch - I repeat, quality is irrelevant to corporates.

Corporate will move off GitHub as soon as it loses prestige and they will move on to the next thing.

Sourcehut isn't free and has weird UX, Codeberg is free but has poor performance and weirdly over-moderates discussions. I know corporate will always suck, I'm just talking about having something that approximates the "old GitHub" for personal/professional use

The SourceHut UI looks weird compared to commercial offerings, but every time I use it I am pleasantly surprised how fast it is and how little clutter there is.

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