Codeberg is for FOSS repos only, and you need to submit an application before using their CI: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests

In addition, they're doing some very shady stuff re: captchas and accessibility, most likely running some secret patches on their server that they're not publishing in their source tree.

Can you be more specific?

It is, but Codeberg is only for free and open source projects.

Check out https://codefloe.com for private repos hosted with Forgejo. It is also free and hosted in the EU.

Are you actually using this? Their status page seems to indicate that their main service is unhealthy for the past 6 days?

https://status.codefloe.com/

Unhealthy doesn't mean unusable but it sounded great until I checked that.

I just started using it last week. So can’t comment on the reliability yet.

You are free to host your own instance for commercial software.

But that would be Forgejo and some other projects AFAIK, not Codeberg (which is basically a hosting service using these projects)

Yeah sure, and I guess there's a market for that as a service - others have mentioned at least one instance of that.

until its not.

Every company or entity changes over time. Codeberg is great, but with more people using it for free, without donating, and worse, more people abusing the service with some bs AI generate code, malware, etc, more expensive will get to keep it running.. for now they have money, but as e.V in Germany, you survive either from members or from donations.. So use Codeberg, but most important, support it!