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InfluxDB
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Home Assistant
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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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awesome-selfhosted
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Stream
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drone
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gitness
Discontinued Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. [Moved to: https://github.com/harness/harness]
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self-hosted-docker-setups
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Gitea discussion
Gitea reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gitea. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-09-16.
- Forgejo v13.0 Is Available
It's on the radar (as Gitea is also actively working on this - https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/35295), but I suspect you can not expect anything for a while:
"Upstream Proposal: Repository Grouping/Subgroups in Forgejo":
https://codeberg.org/fedora/forgejo-deployment/issues/224
"feat: extend Forgejo URL structure from organisation/repository to organisation/project/repository":
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/9550
- Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages
Here's an example off the top of my mind:
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/go.sum
- FFmpeg moves to Forgejo
- GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
I bounced away from Gitea because they don't (last time I checked) have OIDC. I started[0] trying to revive-and-drive a previous PR[1] to add it, but the test failures are beyond my motivation to investigate and resolve.
[0] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/33945
[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/25664
- Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog
It’s coming: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/20311
I would be willing to guess that self hosting gitea as a backup mirror is less work than doing the same for Bluesky. But, just speculating
- Ditching Obsidian and building my own
As I mentioned in a previous post - you can use "git" without Github by hosting an instance of the open-source Gitea service.
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
- Live Syncing to a Git Repository with a VS Code Extension
As mentioned in the last post, I keep my notes in git repositories. I originally used Obsidian for years as my note-taking application of choice after migrating away from Google Keep, using the vast library of community plugins (namely obsidian-livesync and obsidian-git) to back up and sync my notes on an interval to my 3 remotes; GitHub, my private Gitea instance for my private "second brain" type notes, and my Otterwiki instance (a wiki that runs on a git server of markdown files).
- Setting Up Gitea on AlmaLinux 9
The solution to this is to use fake e-mails.
- Gitea 1.22 is the last version to allow a transparent ugprade to Forgejo
I can't say what Forgejo has over Gitea, but I can tell you Forgejo is missing everything from the 888 merged PRs in Gitea 1.23: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.23.0-rc0
Repo license support, integrated Arch package repository, automatic issue suggestions, and the new review+homepage UIs would be notable ones for me.
- Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
See this issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
For years, "self-hosting" Gitea wasn't done because it was missing a bunch of useful collaboration features. Now, it looks like that gap has been closed. All of the specific features mentioned in that issue seem to have been fixed, and the big remaining task is figuring out below to actually migrate all the existing data out of GitHub -- which doesn't seem to be super high on the priority list.
- A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB www.influxdata.com | 23 Dec 2025
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go-gitea/gitea is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
Gitea is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Gitea is Go.
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