I have been thinking about leaving github for a while. It is a very good platform, but as time passes, I realized I wanted to be more in control of my projects.

Yesterday, I moved about 250 repos away to a gitea instance. Transition required a bit of tinkering (a few scripts) but went smoothly.

The good sides are:

- very fast, a lot faster than github for pushing/pulling but also the web UI is a lot faster

- I'm in total control, I can change the look of the UI, create as many orgs as I want to organize my repos…

Now the cons:

- No social network effect, I don't know how contributions to my projects will evolve

- Subject to DDoS and the like, I need to keep my instance accessible because I moved my FOSS projects on it

Maybe more, it's been one day only.

I am not suggesting all project should move out of github, it is a very good tool, but I think it wouldn't be bad to rely less on it.