I made the switch a couple of days ago. Just downloaded the forgejo binary, renamed it to gitea and dropped it in as a replacement. Now I am running forgejo successfully.
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Someone mentioned this awesome fork of it for that reason https://forgejo.org/compare/#why-was-forgejo-created
Exactly. I’d always go for Forgejo over Gitea now, especially since even Codeberg uses it (and I trust them)
Thanks! I’m a Gitea user for years and was not aware of this. I was planning my own Gitea server, I will now forgo gitea for forgejo.
I made the switch a couple of days ago. Just downloaded the forgejo binary, renamed it to gitea and dropped it in as a replacement. Now I am running forgejo successfully.
Good to know it’s that easy!
Love it when this happens, volunteer random info and someone is like yeah I actually needed this thanks haha