Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

2025-10-0116:4821587codeberg.org

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Show article

Codeberg is maintained by the non-profit organization Codeberg e.V., based in Berlin, Germany. For us, supporting the commons comes first.

Its future is in the hands of its users. You can help too!

We are more than just Git hosting: Our community is comprised of like-minded developers, artists, academics, hobbyists and professionals.

We celebrate free culture, openness and creativity.

No tracking. No third-party cookies. No profiteering. Everything runs on servers that we control. Your data is not for sale.

Hosted in Europe, we welcome the world.

Become a member

Our non-profit structure reinforces our independence. Your donations and contributions sustain our community. Help us achieve our mission by joining Codeberg e.V. as a supporting or active member with full voting rights!

Fund our project

Free as in freedom, not as in beer! Maintaining our systems and developing our software has its costs, which are backed by optional donations. We appreciate them a lot, as they help provide a better service for everyone.

Develop Codeberg

Powered by Free Software! Get involved with Codeberg and help improve your experience. We are always looking for contributions to our projects and services.

Read the original article

Comments

By enkrs 2025-10-0117:353 reply

I'm wondering, now almost three years in after the Forgejo/Gitea fork, which side of the fork ended up better. Both still seem very active with thousands of commits each.

I run a Gitea server (since long before the fork, constantly updated) that handles issues, pull requests, signed commits, CI/CD, actions, and even serves my containers and packages. It's been amazing.

Of course Forgejo can do the same. For those who’ve followed both projects closely — which fork would you say has come out ahead? Codeberg being Forgejo's SaaS offering likely gives them more resources, but I also wonder if that means their priorities lean more toward SaaS than self-hosting.

By kstrauser 2025-10-0117:38

When I checked a couple months ago, Forgejo was getting quite a bit more developer activity, which makes sense to me given the reason for the split: https://honeypot.net/2025/05/14/gitea-vs-forgejo-development...

By homebrewer 2025-10-0118:41

> their priorities lean more toward SaaS than self-hosting

It was FUD when the fork was announced, it is FUD now. Look at commercial images and what differentiates them from MIT — it's pretty much just SAML and not much else. Their actual development policy is "you pay us for the feature you need — we build it under MIT and ship for everyone"; their collaboration with Blender is the most prominent example of this that I know of.

I've also been wondering whether to jump ship, and have been going by comparing release notes — how many features were shipped within the same period of time, which bugs were fixed, etc. I've seen no reason to migrate, Gitea continues to advance faster, even though Forgejo copies some of their commits that still apply relatively easily.

Forget about commit counts, issues closed, and other artificial metrics — they're significantly inflated on Forgejo's side by heavy use of bots (like bumping dependencies) and merge commits (which Gitea development process doesn't use). Look at release notes.

By pityJuke 2025-10-0120:26

How is Gogs, the original project doing these days?

By iamdamian 2025-10-0122:09

I self-host forgejo but still want a way to publish open-source. I've been using GitHub for this and didn't realize that codeberg.org was an option. Glad to see them getting the press.

By ge96 2025-10-0120:12

I remember when private repos cost $7/mo before they were free on GitHub

Hacker News