I always like to see projects reducing centralization of code hosting.
However, my initial reaction to the UI is that it almost feels like a ripoff of GitHub, since many UI elements are very close in layout and design - down to the same large icon on the left of the author's name (legally copied from GitHub via octicons, but still).
The project looks great, but it's ironic that it uses github.com to host itself [1].
The only message "not eating your own dog food" sends is this: "we're not doing it for ourselves, we're doing it for those who might find it interesting", which in turn sends a strong warning about the lifespan of the project.
It's possible the project doesn't (currently) have all the features they like when hosting on Github. Nothing says the project won't be moved in the future.
I'm actually running this in favor of GitLab which might be more feature complete, but it was much too resource intensive for my taste. I haven't tested it, but the developers claim it can run on an rPi. What I can say is that running it has only added a negligible amount of load to my VPS.
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The only message "not eating your own dog food" sends is this: "we're not doing it for ourselves, we're doing it for those who might find it interesting", which in turn sends a strong warning about the lifespan of the project.
[1] - https://github.com/gogits/gogs
If they self hosted this project, it would add unnecessary overhead to anyone who wanted to help out.