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This looks super cool - especially given the changes to github’s leadership.

One minor note - on mobile safari there didn’t seem to be any state update on press of buttons, and submission was not clear until the backend server seemed to respond. My internet connection is a little slow and it was unclear tapping the button worked. I would expect a little loading state or at least ui to show the button as disabled during submission.

Seems like heavier version of gitea with a pricing section.
Why do people self-host things like this instead of Github or Gitlab? I don't want to maintain more services for my services. Who has time for that.

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How do the discussions stay with the code? Git notes?
I recall looking at it maybe 2-3 years ago and deciding against it. And it never seemed to get traction in the selfhosted community either.

...but I can't for the life of me recall why. Definitely wasn't a radioactive red flag issue...but some aspect around CI wasn't for me.

In general though with things like this that carry an open license and have a docker image you're better off trying it yourself than listening to randoms like me

Ooh! My interest is peaked seeing it is written in Java.
The docker quickstart asks me to mount the docker socket, an incredibly dangerous act that fundamentally breaks the isolation that containers are supposed to provide. I see no attempt to explain why this level of access is necessary.

I can guess why you think you need it, but whatever the reason it's not good enough. If you need job workers or some other kind of container, tell me how to run those with docker compose.

I actually have a side project running on it. The CI documentation is really lacking and it was hard setting it up. Other than that I am happy with it.
It looks cool, but I think some/most of the features on the front page are behind a paywall?

I'll add it to my list of things to try out though, having more competition in the space is definitely a good thing.