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As best I can see, bookstack has not experienced much in the way of concrete issues with Github. And there there are no concrete benefits from migrating to Codeberg. It is his project, his perogative, completely. But the major disbenefit of being on some other forge is that people are less likely to find the software and so less likely to adopt it.

I use Bookstack for a family wiki. I probably would not have gone with it if it had not be hosted on Github as the visible activity on Github makes it clear that it's a project with momentum (18k stars, lot's of activity) etc.

I can't help but feel that moving will make the project less successful than otherwise...

OSS is increasingly bisecting into two camps, and you can tell which camp they are in depending on whether their developers use X or Mastodon/Bluesky.
It's best to ignore such things.
It's 100% oriented around the US political compass, too.

I noticed this in ~2012 in the Python community. PyCon 2013 was the last "real PyCon" in my eyes. That was "Donglegate" happened, and was the last TiP BoF.

Since then it's only increased both in both scale and scope.

The politics of each "side" completely aside, it has worried me for a long time that the division has infected F/OSS as well, and weakened it as a result.

good for you but do we need to post every no name project that moves away from github? feels weird