GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

kept by eddie dec 01, 25

A developer describes their successful migration from GitHub to Codeberg, detailing steps like repo migration, link repointing, stubbing, and CI porting.

GitHub is sinking – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
GitHub has become unreliable and slop-filled under Microsoft, prompting users to migrate to alternative Git forges.
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This is why PR diff speed matters. This isn't a dunk on GitHub specifically, because GitLab, Forgejo, etc. are all equal or worse. But this
PR diff rendering is often so slow across GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo that expert users experience frame drops and input lag, making the tool a bottleneck.
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Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Ghostty creator Mitchell Hashimoto is moving the project off GitHub due to frequent outages and declining service quality since Microsoft's acquisition.
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Before GitHub | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
Armin Ronacher argues that as GitHub declines due to instability and product churn, open source must preserve its history by moving to decentralized, archivally-funded homes that avoid the pre-GitHub era's fragility.
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Git at any scale
Cursor explains why Git's packfile design hinders scalable hosting, reviews past solutions like Spokes, and introduces Continuity, a S3‑based write‑ahead log system that provides linearizable, elastically scalable Git storage.
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