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Gogs is the original. Gitea is a fork because the dev of Gogs wasn’t taking community input (I think that was the reasoning behind it). Forgejo is a fork of gitea because some folks didn’t like gitea forming a for profit corporation (Or something to that effect).

As far as day to day use they’re all fairly similar, though it’s been a long time since I used Gogs.

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princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s not just the for-profit corporation, there’s also governance issues. Basically, the community elected certain positions and then had the rug pulled out from them such that no elections would be held again.

In the name of the Gitea Community who elected you last year, we welcome the creation of a for-profit company that allows you to make a living out of Gitea.

[…]

We believed you when you promised to pass along the ownership of the Gitea project to your elected successors. This promise is part of an essential bond between you and the strong Community of volunteers, as well as all those who rely upon our collective efforts.

With that in mind, you can understand our surprise when we learned on October 25th, 2022 that both the domains and the trademark were transferred to a for-profit company without our knowledge or approval.

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- AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thanks, I knew there was a bit more to it but hadn’t followed it all that closely.
  
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marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
IMO, the Gogs dev was correct. If you look at that community input and what Gitea became, I was glad to use the version that rejected it.

But I don’t know how it compares with Forgejo.

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- _cryptagion@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s Gitea with some security fixes and community input, as open source software should be.
  
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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  what’s the problem with gitea? I never used gogs so I can’t compare it
  
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  - marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The added features made it harder to deploy, came with some bugs, and overall traded a simple design for community-oriented features that IMO were a negative value overall.
    
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    WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    made it harder to deploy? Isn’t it still just a single binary, a config file and a directory for data?
    
    bugs are inevitable for evolving software.
    
    which community oriented features do you mean? are they in the way, or is it just that you don’t need them?
    
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