Codefloe
Hacker ApprovedRanked 12 of 22 Git forges by recommenders
Hosted Forgejo git service people recommend for free private and commercial repos, with fast performance and EU hosting. Main caveat: critics want clearer data-protection guarantees and question its for-profit status.
Hosted Forgejo git service people recommend for free private and commercial repos, with fast performance and EU hosting. Main caveat: critics want clearer data-protection guarantees and question its for-profit status.
23 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 17
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 74%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 17 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free private and commercial repos
“Check out https://codefloe.com for private repos hosted with Forgejo. It is also free and hosted in the EU.”
Comment from 30 Mar 2026 in “Copilot edited an ad into my PR” “offers a free built-in integration with no restriction on personal or private repositories”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting” “You can have private personal projects and even commercial/business projects.”
Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge” - Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting”
- Comment from 28 Aug 2026 in “Bye, Bye GitHub”
Professionally run and transparent
“Codefloe is professionally hosted on a robust platform”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting” “They keep public records updated quarterly (neat!)”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge” “everything is managed with infrastructure as code”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting” - Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge”
Useful extras beyond plain git
“Codefloe has that feature (which isn't in stock Forgejo)”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge” “it provides a lot more than a link to git”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Incident with Github.com” “their built-in CI is pretty nice”
Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge” Fast, stable, kept up to date
“The service is blazing fast and the maintainer does a great job keeping it up-to-date with recent Forgejo releases.”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “Incident with Actions and Pages” “It's been stable, snappy, and offers me everything I need.”
Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Data protection and governance unclear
“If you are going to offer hosting, you need to state what kind of guarantees around data protection you offer.”
Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge” “I will never trust a for-profit corporation to host my data, and even less so if it claims to not seek profit.”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting” “I didn't find any good community rules or pricing, any political statement about the mission, etc.”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting”
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See all 22 Git forges, rankedWhat people said
28 of the 34 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“everything is managed with infrastructure as code”
“The reason I'm supporting Codefloe is written in the comment you are responding to.”
“I will never trust a for-profit corporation to host my data, and even less so if it claims to not seek profit.”
“Codefloe is professionally hosted on a robust platform”
“at least they're not restricting what projects you can host with them”
“I didn't find any good community rules or pricing, any political statement about the mission, etc.”
“offers a free built-in integration with no restriction on personal or private repositories”
“No real restrictions like other options.”
“We have a custom integration for "Pages" in partnership with statichost.eu.”
“Not on AWS, so costs are like 1/5 or less.”
“Their primary storage medium is block storage which is quite expensive.”
“They keep public records updated quarterly (neat!)”
“they are very transparent of how they do the job”
“Codefloe has that feature (which isn't in stock Forgejo)”
“You can have private personal projects and even commercial/business projects.”
“Forgejo/Gitea/Gogs just isn't a good foundation to build on top of.”
“I trust he knows his stuff.”
“their built-in CI is pretty nice”
“If you are going to offer hosting, you need to state what kind of guarantees around data protection you offer.”
“it provides a lot more than a link to git”
“Would be nice if "free tier" on their home page was a link where it was there and clear.”
“runs forgejo and the hosting is EU-based”
“The service is blazing fast and the maintainer does a great job keeping it up-to-date with recent Forgejo releases.”
“I'm getting all I need now out of Forgejo/Codeberg/Codefloe.”
“Their status page seems to indicate that their main service is unhealthy for the past 6 days?”
“Check out https://codefloe.com for private repos hosted with Forgejo. It is also free and hosted in the EU.”
“It's been stable, snappy, and offers me everything I need.”
“Forgejo is much better than what GitHub has become.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.