We were on self-hosted Gitlab but after a merger were forced to Github. Navigation feels painful in comparison and basic features such as commit graph are now behind more expensive tiers.
Same experience here. Add to that that even on Enterprise tier:
- 1 Enterprise : 1 namespace - although you can segment it with Orgs, we were advised not to do it because we're too small (~2k people) (GL: groups, subgroups, sub-subgroups, ...)
- SSH deploy keys are singletons across the entire instance and repo-bound (and Weblate for instance can only use its own key), so you need a service account for that (GL: instance-wide SSH deploy keys that you can activate in specific repos)
- GHCR only really supports classic PATs for authentication ( https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-pa... - GL: proper deploy keys properly inherited throughout the hierarchy)
So all in all the experience so far is a huge step-down. I really liked pinning commonly accessed pages in the sidebar.
At a customer we're implementing GitHub Actions and even on our Dev environment there are so many hickups with GitHub.
Might be pricy though.
- SourceHut: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut/
- Forgejo (used by Codeberg, etc.): https://forgejo.org/
Forgejo, on the other hand, is a drop-in replacement for GitHub.
- https://about.gitea.com/ (F/OSS MIT license self hosting GitHub like instance)