Codeberg Is Down

(status.codeberg.org)

47 points | by x3ro 3 hours ago

13 comments

  • alecco 2 hours ago
    It seems everything bug CI is back up.

    Congrats to Codeberg for having a real status page and not a made up one like AWS and many others.

    • phoronixrly 5 minutes ago
      Shame on Atlassian that during their last full bitbucket outage took an hour to even acknowledge an issue on their status page, then another full hour until the status page reflected the reality (that it was indeed a complete outage).
    • samdoesnothing 1 hour ago
      What's better, CI thats built by monkeys or CI that's offline?
      • ErroneousBosh 7 minutes ago
        I agree with tpoacher.

        A CI that's completely broken and not building anything cannot produce incorrect results.

        If it's producing no result at all, you know it's broken, not simply incorrect.

      • tpoacher 58 minutes ago
        definitely the latter.
  • x3ro 3 hours ago
    Since we've seen some high-profile projects move to Codeberg recently, and I was trying to sign-up, may be relevant to HN's interests :)
    • theshrike79 3 hours ago
      "Zig quits Github" is like two steps down from this on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406

      :D

      • nirui 47 minutes ago
        https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig

        Currently Zig is the second most "stared" project on Codeberg (1443 stars). The first one is forgejo/forgejo (3154 stars) which is powering Codeberg, and the third one is dnkl/foot terminal emulator (1434). (see https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=&only_show_relevant=tru...)

        It's always interesting to see big and significant projects moving away from major commercial platforms. Could it be a sign of something new on the horizon?

      • nodesocket 1 minute ago
        I mean, just disable the AI bloat features in GitHub. I’ve been using GitHub since 2010 (15 years - holy shit I am old) and it’s still the best. I never understood the mass complaining, though I give GitLab credit for building a massive company and taking it public. When GitLab launched I was like, this is going to fail as a business 100%. I was wrong.
    • dodos 3 hours ago
      I was thinking the same thing, looks like a hug of death.
  • veltas 40 minutes ago
    Good thing git is distributed!

    I always like to move as much as possible into the repo itself, 'issues' etc in a TODO, build scripts, or however you want to achieve that, so you can at least carry on uninterrupted when the host is down.

  • xz18r 3 hours ago
    I had a few updates failing because parts of it are hosted on Codeberg. If anything, this shows that people are moving there.
  • thomasfromcdnjs 1 hour ago
    "bad press is good press"

    I don't care for Zig at all, and had never heard of Codeberg, they are now solidified in my mind aha

  • ramon156 52 minutes ago
    I would say hug of death is very different to an outage due to an error. Still good to own up ofcourse!
    • mariusor 1 minute ago
      This is no hug, this is a villain kneecapping them with a pipe.
  • eesmith 2 hours ago
    https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 , Dec 02, 2025, 10:18 PM

    "We are currently fighting against a DDoS attack against our service and our status page. We are analyzing network traffic with the help of our ISP at the moment and let you know once we have updates to share."

    • Klonoar 1 hour ago
      Didn't SourceHut go through the same issue?

      (Yes, I'm aware DDoS attacks are nothing new)

    • CodeCompost 2 hours ago
      They're not paying the Cloudflare protection money?
    • fabioborellini 1 hour ago
      DDoS or just too many new legitimate clients?
      • styanax 17 minutes ago
        Codeberg has been under DDOS attacks for most of 2025, someone out there has it in for them and has been attacking relentlessly. The volunteer team has been very transparent posting about in social media and their blogs.
      • eesmith 1 hour ago
        I think it's best to take their statement at face value. I have no special insight into the organization.
  • jdthedisciple 1 hour ago
    Considering moving to Codeberg too, but only 90% uptime for codeberg.org has me concerned. Not a great look unfortunately
    • tpoacher 57 minutes ago
      why not sourcehut?
      • rvz 1 minute ago
        Unless you want to pay for the price increase and have no issue with the owner, then sourcehut.
      • alessivs 7 minutes ago
        Drew's direct engagement into tech cancel-culture (with targets such as DHH, RMS, Andreas Kling, Jack Dorsey), makes it difficult to do business with him (assuming hosted sourcehut service as an alternative to codeberg). Furthermore, at the newly proposed service rates it is much more liberating to self-host (any lightweight forge–including sourcehut).
  • booleandilemma 42 minutes ago
    So when Codeberg gets famous what's to stop Microsoft or another behemoth from acquiring it and starting the whole cycle over again?
    • rsolva 18 minutes ago
      It is a non-profit association based in Berlin, and its very existence is a protest towards Microsoft and the other big actors in this space. And it is built on Forgejo, an open source project with a strong community around it.

      Both Codeberg and sourcehut are good options when escaping the walled gardens of Big Tech :)

    • Xylakant 18 minutes ago
      It’s an e.V., a German legal construct for public good organizations.

      That doesn’t make it impossible to buy it, but all profits from a sale must flow into recognized public good efforts. The incentive to sell for huge sums is just much lower for all people involved.

  • sonderotis 2 hours ago
    probably because of the zig migration lol /jk. first big project I see
    • lousken 2 hours ago
      Resource-wise it's 50x easier to run than gitlab, they should be fine.
  • Kalpana01 2 hours ago
    [flagged]
    • johnh-hn 1 hour ago
      This is a bot. It's even copied the typo from the top comment.
      • gary_0 35 minutes ago
        If you email [email protected] they're usually quite responsive about banning obvious bot accounts.
        • johnh-hn 26 minutes ago
          Ah, I was wondering about that. Flagging didn't seem like quite the right thing to do, but at the same time I don't see a reason to leave bots hanging around.

          Thanks Gary, I'll use that next time.

  • rvz 2 hours ago
    Let's see if anyone will pay for Codeberg after the migration from GitHub.