9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Forgejo first-hand: 6 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We switched our entire product studio to a self hosted Forgejo and honestly this has been one of our best decisions”
endorse · production · iamkonstantin · 2026-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I encourage everyone to switch to Forgejo. We ditched GitHub and could not be happier.”
endorse · production · klaussilveira · 2026-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run dedicated Forgejo instances for people who want that middle ground.”
endorse · production · stephenway · 2026-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really like Forgejo as a project, and I've found the community to be very welcoming.”
endorse · production · adamcharnock · 2026-02-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Forgejo Actions has really just felt like a much more refined and cared-for version of GitHub Actions; I'm quite happy with it so far.”
endorse · production · mlugg · 2025-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switch over to either one. I cannot recommend it enough after using it "in production" daily”
endorse · production · homebrewer · 2025-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my homelab it's a Forgejo comment linking to an auth service”
neutral · personal · srcreigh · 2026-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Forgejo in a couple days”
neutral · production · monkaiju · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use forgejo at my company because it was not clear to us to what extent gitea would play nicely”
neutral · production · weitendorf · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?