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For anyone curious why they should choose one over the other:

I wish they had an actual feature comparison list. I've been trying to find anyone who can give me a list of non-trivial differences between the two; so far it's always either FUD about Gitea's governance and security structure or ForgeFed. The former has made me rather wary of the project[0] and the latter has been stagnate for years and I'm no longer convinced anything will come from it. Otherwise it's just silence.

Personally I thought Forgejo was doing better work on their actions runner for a while from casual changelog browsing but Gitea's been putting a lot of work into theirs. Otherwise it mostly still looks like a soft-fork in practice to me.

[0] Not that I'm thrilled with Gitea's semi-open-core setup and company but they make it seem like they're kicking puppies and dangling features over non-enterprise users head before snatching them away.

Unfortunately, seems like this is Forgejo's best suggestion on how to compare the two: https://i.imgur.com/j1665QR.png. Not sure that page helps much if you're not already bought in to a free-software-absolutist mindset

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Ah, do you live in the UK? I'm sorry about your government. Unfortunately VPNs are the only way to get reasonable service in the UK right now.

why is that?

It's very widely discussed as having one of the most active regulators in the world, you can see some articles about the UK's current push for heavy regulatory burden for websites here:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/20/death-of-a-forum-how-the... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/13/the-uks-new-under-16-soc...

It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with the UK's current regulatory regime. Great for large players and horrible for small websites or ones struggling with profitability.

Gitea forking from Gogs was somewhat justified but I’ve always felt like Forgejo forking from Gitea was a huge overreaction to nothing

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Of course I wouldn't recommend taking the conclusion. But it is a valuable view of some differences that the Forgejo developers perceive as valuable.

Thanks! Currently going through this decision process myself.

I suggest browsing through the release notes of the last 4-5 versions to see what you like more.

I'd argue project values, license and health are way more important.

Would you also argue that the technical quality, efficiency, capacity, performance etc. of a piece of machinery, too, is way less important than the social and political values of its manufacturer? Say, a piece of medical equipment used in a hospital to keep a patient alive.

I have a feeling that nobody will die (most likely) for choosing forgejo or gitea... Apples and oranges...

But from the downvoting, announcing evaluation of these is contentious. Oh HN!

I'm sure nobody will, but I disagree that it's an apples and oranges thing. But for you I'm willing to instead offer an example of a CNC machine making parts for... anything. The question and comparison is at its core still just as valid and relevant. Is the result way less important than "feeling good" about the solution?

Release notes would inform my view of project health and priorities

The project’s values as well, much more so than any “values statement”. The proof is in the pudding, not in the marketing speak.

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