Goodbye Github,

Hello Codeberg!

Do you also think that somethings should just have one function and do that function really well? Like, I don't need my toaster to have a "mobile app", I don't want my fridge to have an integrated AI, I just need it to keep my damn beer cold, you see I feel the same way about code repository tools, like GitHub. All it needs to do is keep my code and its history there. I don't want GitHub to analyze potential vulnerabilities in my project that I have archived 3 years ago, I don't want an AI tool, I just need it to collaborate writing code.

Downfall of GitHub

I think the GitHub that everyone liked, died in 2018 when Microslop purchased them for 8 Billion USD, and as per Microsoft textbook, they took a perfectly good piece of technology and brutalized it to a point it became exhausting to work with. And GitHub isn't their first victim when it comes to this, the same has been done to beloved tools such as Skype. Microsoft bought Skype and absolutely ruined it, discontinuing the project in around 2024 (approx). GitHub, recently had a major issue where they self-destructed to a point where users had to deploy their own fixes in their repos.

Introducing CodeBerg!

Thankfully I have found a perfect alternatives to GitHub, Codeberg. Codeberg is a German non-profit, open-source project that is being built, maintained and financed by the people for the people. It's simplified UI, is a breath of fresh-air. It is literally PERFECT, you make a repo, you commit to that repo and make pull requests and done, no AI BS, no useless bells and whistles, just a perfectly working piece of application that does a few things, but does those few things perfectly.

Given its German heritage, CodeBerg has a perfect chance to be adapted by EU governments as they are trying to decouple themselves from US dominated application ecosystem. Currently countries like France is ditching Microsoft's bread-and-butter Windows OS, in exchange of Free and Open Source alternative Linux.

If you are also sick of the same issues plaguing repository systems such as GitHub and GitLab, I encourage you to give Codeberg a chance.

— Elnur