Comment by xrd

I came here to say this. I switched to forgejo after self hosting gitlab for years, and haven't missed anything.

The article mentions the container registry as a prime feature of gitab. Forgejo has this, btw.

In addition, speed (of everything) is so good with forgejo. The resource requirements (napkin math, but...) are 10% of gitlab.

I see no reason to ever use GitLab again.

There are two minor annoyances for me, but not deal breakers. . First, I actually prefer the GitLab CI syntax. "GitHub Actions" is a mess. I suppose it makes sense to use the dominant gorilla (github actions), but converting to this CI was more trouble than it should have been.

Also, the forgejo API: it is much less developed. I did like exploring with GraphQL which is totally missing in forgejo. But, you have access to the database directly (and can use sqlite or postgres, your choice) so you can really do whatever you want with a custom script. Forgejo API and their infrastructure around it is just a bit more clunky, but nothing that was a major problem.