2026-03-30: Improvements to the hosted Renovate bot Over the course of the last weeks we refactored how the Renovate bot performs it’s actions on repositories. Historically, the bot ran once per hour on all repos it has access to in sequential order. This caused the job to take around 35 minutes already for around 100 repos it had to process. The runtime includes both enabled dependency and repo caches. Given that CodeFloe has it’s own k8s cluster since some time, we stumbled over https://github.com/mogenius/renovate-operator. This k8s operator...

Our hosted #renovate bot now runs via the mogenius/renovate-operator.

This enables webhook-based support, i.e. clicking the checkboxes in the renovate dashboard and PR actions now have an effect!

Read more here: forum.codefloe.com/t/2026-03-30...

#codefloe #forgejo #renovate #giveUpGitHub

Introduction Crow CI - A lightweight, fast and extensible CI/CD application

Heads-up: crowci.dev (the whole organization) has been moved off from #codeberg to #codefloe -> codefloe.com/crowci/crow

#cicd #golang #selfhost

We just concluded today's maintenance:

- Forgejo: v13 -> v14
- Postgres: v17 -> v18

Crow CI, Meilisearch, Valkey and other related services have also been upgraded.

#codefloe #forgejo #codeberg #git

crow Fast, minimal, and resource-efficient CI/CD. A streamlined pipeline engine for Git forges with a focus on low overhead and ease of deployment.

If you find some bugs or just wanna say thanks, please do so at codeberg.org/crowci/crow.

NB: Crow will soon move to codefloe.com

#codeberg #codefloe

Original post on metalhead.club

By the way: Yesterday I found CodeFloe: A public Forgejo (Git server) instance that is open to any projects and users.

Unlike Codeberg, it it not limited to personal or Open Source licensed projects.

If you were thinking "Codeberg is nice, but what about my personal closed-source projects?" - […]

2025-11-03: Various Forgejo Actions improvements; Update to Crow v4.4.0; IPV6 support Forgejo Actions configuration has seen lots of improvements over the last days. Docker workflows are now supported through a dedicated docker-in-docker (DIND) instance processing all workflows. See...

Various Forgejo Actions improvements; Update to Crow v4.4.0; IPV6 support

More details at forum.codefloe.com/t/2025-11-03...

#codefloe #forgejo #GiveUpGitHub

The #codefloe #postgres database now runs on three (NVME) bare-metal servers, making the platform performance even better.

The docs now also provide more details about the hardware in use: docs.codefloe.com/infrastructu...

#forgejo #GiveUpGitHub

Screenshot of changelog widget

#codefloe now shows a widget for instance-wide changelog posts and other global announcements.

Feel free to provide feedback in the forum (forum.codefloe.com/t/2025-08-13...) on this approach broadcasting changes to the platform!

#giveupgithub #forgejo

forgejo-codefloe Forgejo-mirror with tweaks for CodeFloe

#CodeFloe, a public #Forgejo-based #Github alternative, now has support for file icon sets (with 'devicon' being the default set).

The icon set can be switched on a per-user basis.

Showcase: codefloe.com/codefloe/for...

CodeFloe - A code hosting platform for the modern age A modern alternative to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and others. Built on top of free and open-source software, CodeFloe provides a transparent and GDPR-compliant platform for developers to collaborate a...

Fellow coders, friends, #foss enthusiasts:

Are you in search of a #github alternative? Do you like #forgejo?

Then say hello to CodeFloe 👋️

👉️ codefloe.com
👉️ Docs: docs.codefloe.com

Read more about the motivation to create #codefloe here: pat-s.me/codefloe-lau...