List of Community-Hosted Code Forge Instances

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Intro / Context

In 2019, free code projects are increasingly using community-hosted replacements for proprietary 'code forge' (software project management) platforms like GitHub, which is now owned by Microsoft. Some are run by projects teams for their own use and for use by allied projects, while others are intended to replicate the 'open to all' community hub model of GitHub and GitLab.com. This list began to be compiled on List of Community-Hosted GitLab Instances. It will continue to be periodically updated here, but will probably become less and less complete over time, as the interest in self-hosting and community-hosting increases. --Strypey (talk) 19:45, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

During a major update of the web forges list in August 2026, I discovered an ecosyste.ms site that appears to be mapping code forges in some automated way. So only the decentralised code forging section of this page is likely to be updated from now on, with the possible exception of adding any new forge software that appears, and some example services --Strypey (talk) 15:18, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Decentralised code forging

Federating independent code forges

One major downside of projects working on their own code forges is that it makes it hard to collaborate between projects, as contributors have to set up an account on every forge that hosts a project they want to contribute to, or even file an issue on. There are a number of projects working on ways to enable these community-hosted code forges to form a federated network, allowing them to compete with the network effect of large, centralized services like GitHub and BitBucket:

Distributed code forge experiments

  • ForkMesh https://forkmesh.com - "... mirrors your Git repositories across a live mesh of desktop nodes ..."
  • GitSocial: https://gitsocial.org/ - "Git-native cross-forge collaboration: posts, issues, PRs, releases, all in your repo" using GitMsg, (warning: reference implementation created with Claude Code)

Other decentralised code forging projects

  • git-bug: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug - "... a standalone, distributed, offline-first issue management tool that embeds issues, comments, and more as objects in a git repository (not files!) ..."
  • F3: https://nlnet.nl/project/F3-FriendlyForgeFormat/ - "... an Open File Format for storing the information from a forge such as issues, pull/merge requests, milestones, release assets, etc. as well as the associated VCS (Git, Mercurial, etc.)."
  • ForgeFlux: https://forgeflux.org/about - "... will implement ForgeFed external to the forges, using the forge's HTTP APIs. Officially, external federation for Gitea, SourceHut, GitLab and GitHub will be implemented but the project will also provide tools and guidelines to implement federation for unsupported forges."

List of Community-Hosted Code Forge Instances

This list of instances is sorted according to the code forge software used, in alphabetical order.

Forgejo

https://forgejo.org/

Forked from Gitea in 2022, became an independent fork in 2024. More information is available on the Delightful Forgejo list.

  • Besties: https://git.gay/explore/ - According to the Delightful Forgejo list; "instance run by Besties, a queer collective. Uses modified version of Forgejo"
  • Bolha: https://bolha.dev/explore - According to the Delightful Forgejo list; "instance run by bolha.us, and bolha.io a Brazilian IT collective. Running the vanilla version"
  • Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/explore/ - a service set up as a German not-for-profit organisation, for gratis use by public interest projects creating works under libre liceses. Combines hosted Woodpecker (CI), and Weblate (localisation). Originally running Gitea, it was one of the main drivers behind the Forgejo fork
  • CodeFloe: https://codefloe.com/explore - According to the Delightful Forgejo list; "free and open. Legally operated by devXY, a Swiss DevOps company. Open to community engagement and management. Provides Crow CI and Forgejo Actions for CI/CD and a Forum for public user discussions"
  • pub.solar: https://git.pub.solar/explore/ - According to the Delightful Forgejo list; "Register/Login via pub.solar ID, run by a German tech collective with the goal to enable more people to use free software, have secure digital communications, and to take control over their private data"
  • sij.ai: https://sij.ai/explore/ - According to the Delightful Forgejo] list; "Free and open platform run by a public interest environmental lawyer that is open for anyone but especially intended for AI-ML hobbyists & enthusiasts"

Gitea

https://about.gitea.com/products/gitea/

  • Blender Foundation: https://projects.blender.org - used for the development of the Blender 3d modeling suite. Replaces a Phabricator service at developer.blender.org
  • code.as: https://code.as/explore/ - run by A Bunch Tell and used by their development team for projects like WriteFreely (see also Write.as)

GitLab

https://gitlab.com/rluna-gitlab/gitlab-ce

ActivityPub.software: https://activitypub.software/explore/ - used for the development of Sharkey and a few other AP software projects.

  • Debian: https://salsa.debian.org/public - available for any free code software or any software that can be included in the Debian distribution or its repos.
  • e Foundation: https://gitlab.e.foundation/explore/ - used for development of the /e/ project (formerly Eelo), which includes the /e/ OS mobile OS (forked from Android via LineageOS), and a suite of privacy-friendly apps and hosted services (mostly forked from bits of Android, and existing free code Android apps and server packages) designed to create a complete replacement for the mobile devices, apps, and services run by Apple, Google, etc.
  • Jami (a GNU project, formerly Ring): https://git.jami.net/explore/projects/ - used for development of the various components of the GNU Ring P2P voice/ video chat app developed by the savoirfairelinux team
  • Maunium: https://mau.dev/explore - used for development of chat related projects (components for Matrix, Telegram etc)
  • Open Educational Resources Universitas: https://git.oeru.org/explore/ - used by some developers and projects associated with the OERU and OER Foundation.

Gitolite

https://gitolite.com/gitolite/overview.html

  • GNUNet: https://git.gnunet.org/ - used for the development of the GNUNet P2P network stack and apps designed to run over it.

Gogs

https://gogs.io/getting-started/introduction

  • NotaBug: https://notabug.org/ - a community use forge run by Peers.community, a group of free software and free culture advocates. As of January 2026, web interface is down due to pressure from web scapers.

Kallithea

Mercurial

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/about

Phabricator

A June 2021 announcement by the Phacility company that developed Phabricator ended support for both their hosted service, and the software. There is at least one community-led fork, called Phorge. Phabricator provided a wide range of software-related tools, and some communities seem to have used only some of them, while doing their code forging elsewhere.

  • KDE: https://phabricator.kde.org/ - used for KDE desktop environments and related projects. Superceded by invent.kde.org, but the Phabricator service is still running as of August 2026
  • Purism: https://tracker.pureos.net/ - used for bug tracking for the PureOS distribution of GNU/Linux, developed by Purism for use on their custom laptops and mobile devices

Phorge

A community fork of the now-deprecated Phabricator. There is a list of Phorge services on their wiki. As with Phabricator, this suite provides a wide range of software-related tools, and some communities seem to use only some of them, while doing their code forging elsewhere.

  • GitPull: https://gitpull.it/ - "... made in Italy to allow coworking on your Free and open source projects"
  • VyOS: https://vyos.dev/ - use for development of the VyOS GNU/Linux distribution, a community continuation of Vyatta
  • WikiMedia Foundation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ - Originally a Phabricator service, thus the web address, the back-end was upgraded in August 2023 to run on Phorge. Used along with gitlab.wikimedia.org for coordinating WikiMedia projects, including both software projects and non-code projects

Tuleap

  • Tuleap.net: https://tuleap.net/ - used for the development of Tuelap itself, a code forge with a particular focus on integrating tools helpful for agile development practices.

It's Dead Jim!

Services no longer being hosted. Listed for historical completeness.

  • Apertus: Phabricator service used for the Apertus open hardware camera project
  • Blender Foundation: Phabricator service used for the development of the Blender 3d modeling suite. Replaced by a Gitea service at projects.blender.org in early 2023
  • Callpipe: GitLab service used public development of Signald, and possibly a range of private projects. Appears to have gone down permanently towards the end of 2025
  • Cloudstrike: Gitea service mostly for internal use by IT contractors based in Aotearoa. WBM has no archive of the service itself, and the parent website appears to have gone down permanently by the end of 2021.
  • Federated Networks Association - GitLab service used for a range of federated social networking projects, initially those that support the federation protocols used by Diaspora. Shut down after the Association was wound down in 2022
  • femProCommons: Phabricator service used for the development of the CommonsCloud project
  • ForgeFriends: GitLab service used for a range of forge federation related projects, including the ForgeFriends project itself. All ForgeFriends.org services seem to have gone down permanently towards the end of 2024
  • FusionForge: FusionForge service used for the development of FusionForge itself. The service seems to have become unreliable during 2023/24 and disappeared permanently by the end of that year
  • git.libav.org- unknown forge software, used for the development of the LibAV components. Last known uptime of both forge and parent website was at the end of 2022
  • GNU Project: GitLab service used for development of various GNU social media projects, including the MediaGoblin media-hosting package, and the GNU Social micro-blogging server (and web client). Seems to have been discontinued by the end of 2021
  • Hackers.town: Gitea service used for a range of projects worked on by developers associated with the hackers.town fediverse instance. Service was last archived as up and working in 2022
  • Haskell.org: Phabricator service used for the development of core projects related to the Haskell language. Replaced by gitlab.haskell.org
  • Ind.ie: GitLab service used internally by Ind.ie developers for their own projects. Last archived in mid-2022, which which time ind.ie had been succeeded by the Small Tech Foundation, who seem to keep their software in a range of places
  • Mastodon: GitLab service for developers of Mastodon micro-blogging sever (and web client), and associated projects. Last archived as functional in late 2021
  • Pattle.dev: GitLab service used for the development of the Pattle app (Matrix client). No archived version can be found
  • postActiv: Gitea service used for development of the postActiv micro-blogging server (and web client), later migrated to GitLab, before going down permanently around 2020
  • PsychicDebugging: Gitea services used for game related stuff and mirrors of projects including Freedombone. Appears to have gone down permanently sometime in 2022
  • Puckipedia: Gitea service used for the Kroeg federated social web project. Seems to have gone down permanently at the end of 2020
  • SalmonLab: Kallithea instance used for the developed of the GoblinRefuge fork of MediaGoblin and other SL projects. Both forge and parent site are down as of August 2026
  • Shapegoal: Gitea service used for development of fediQuest
  • Silence:GitLab service used for the development of Silence, a fork of Signal used for encrypting SMS/MMS on Android devices, and its website. Last archived in late 2024
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