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GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? (dhruv2038.bearblog.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by dhruv3006@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, didn't Gitlab also say they were going all-in on AI?

There's no major forge you can use for proprietary projects that isn't shitty.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Don’t remind me …. The doublespeak at my company ….. we had to use GitHub for the built in AI, but couldn’t even evaluate GitLab’s AI because it costs extra

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Forgejo, if you self host it, you can use it for propietary projects
(And it's as easy as deploying a docker container and hitting start, really)

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Yes, but then you hold all the liability for your shit going missing. The entire point of using a managed service like github or gitlab is that you have someone to sue.

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[+] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 point 1 week ago

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