I don't expect you to take me at face value (though I will note that I linked to an HN discussion where other people comment on how weird the behavior was even before they nuked the whole discussion), but I will continue to share the story because I'm uncomfortable with how thoroughly quashed it was.

I'm relatively confident it was on archive.org and has been purged by the Forgejo team. There's only one entry on archive.org and it's a month after the event.

And I agree—the software works and I use it and I'm less sketched out by Forgejo than I am by Gitea. I'm just explaining why I'm not going to sink anytime into contributing to their project.