9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gitea first-hand: 6 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“after using it "in production" daily for more than five years”
endorse · production · 5 yr · homebrewer · 2025-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've been using gitea for five years, and from administrator's point of view it's one of the easiest things to self host.”
endorse · production · 5 yr · homebrewer · 2025-03-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gitea itself has super low maintenance burden, single portable binary (I use an APT repo), single config.”
endorse · production · tomxor · 2024-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having been using gitea at work for a while as an "internal mini-github"... it hasn't annoyed me noticeably.”
endorse · production · mst · 2023-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've switched to selfhosted Gitea last month, no regrets.”
endorse · production · dindresto · 2023-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a Gitea for source control and Jenkins for CI... We switched from GitHub to Gitea last year and love it.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · cobbzilla · 2018-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were using it until we grew tired of not having a web view to comment and review patches so we switched to gitea.”
neutral · production · samlinnfer · 2026-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are in fact using gitea every day, and have moved all but the main repo to gitea.com.”
neutral · production · gaius_baltar · 2022-08-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our own instance of Gitea, which is used as an issue tracker as well.”
neutral · production · jamesponddotco · 2019-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?