Wasn’t the project bought out by some company, that now is behind this cloud service?
No, some of the core Gitea developers decided to incorporate a Hongkong based for profit company to better monitize services offered to companies.
This by itself is not such a bad idea, but it was communicated incredibly poorly with the community left in the dark for at least half a year and the subsequent fallout was also dealt with poorly.
I think the best way forward for self-hosters is Forgejo because of that, but that doesn't mean Gitea is currently a bad choice.
That's why the fork Forgejo was made. Codeberg uses that fork as well.
Codeberg is iirc the main entity behind it, at the very least they are using some of their funds to support it
I think they aren't the ones who made the fork tho but just the ones with the most resources out of everyone working on the project. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Wasn’t the project bought out by some company, that now is behind this cloud service?
No, some of the core Gitea developers decided to incorporate a Hongkong based for profit company to better monitize services offered to companies.
This by itself is not such a bad idea, but it was communicated incredibly poorly with the community left in the dark for at least half a year and the subsequent fallout was also dealt with poorly.
I think the best way forward for self-hosters is Forgejo because of that, but that doesn't mean Gitea is currently a bad choice.
That's why the fork Forgejo was made. Codeberg uses that fork as well.
Codeberg is iirc the main entity behind it, at the very least they are using some of their funds to support it
I think they aren't the ones who made the fork tho but just the ones with the most resources out of everyone working on the project. Correct me if I'm wrong.