Forgejo Runner
Shares rank 4 of 9 ci runners by recommenders
People recommend it as a small, solid CI runner that is easy to build and run, and that works well with Forgejo and Gitea.
People recommend it as a small, solid CI runner that is easy to build and run, and that works well with Forgejo and Gitea.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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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
Small and easy to build
“the runner [2] is trivial to build (including cross-compiling) and run, and is on the whole just a much more solid piece of software”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Ask YN: What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions?” “Forgejo's agent is brilliant to be honest. It's a very well contained service, written in Go and builds in practically anything.”
Comment from 14 Nov 2025 in “Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits” “The Forgejo runner is tiny and you can build it even on unsupported platforms”
Comment from 30 Nov 2025 in “Migrating Dillo from GitHub” - Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people”
Solid, well-contained software
“the runner [2] is trivial to build (including cross-compiling) and run, and is on the whole just a much more solid piece of software”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Ask YN: What CI do you use instead of GitHub Actions?” “Forgejo's agent is brilliant to be honest. It's a very well contained service, written in Go and builds in practically anything.”
Comment from 14 Nov 2025 in “Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits” Works with Forgejo and Gitea
“Yet it works perfectly which forgejo/gitea (uses the act runner)”
Comment from 17 Dec 2025 in “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions” “moved to forgejo runners with zero drama”
Comment from 29 Aug 2026 in “Bye, Bye GitHub” Straightforward, low-drama setup
“Works well and is pretty straightforward.”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub” “moved to forgejo runners with zero drama”
Comment from 29 Aug 2026 in “Bye, Bye GitHub”
Other ci runners people recommend
The four most recommended other ci runners, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blacksmith runners | 22 | 21 | 51% | 8 | — | — |
| WarpBuild | 12 | 2 | 86% | 8 | — | Approved |
| GitHub Actions self-hosted runners | 9 | 25 | 26% | 6 | — | — |
| Forgejo RunnerThis page | 8 | 2 | 80% | 4 | — | — |
| RunsOn | 8 | 3 | 73% | 8 | — | — |
What people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“moved to forgejo runners with zero drama”
“Works well and is pretty straightforward.”
“the Windows VM setup + Forgejo Windows runner was the most painful thing for me to setup”
“pull it down and build it, and it will work”
“Forgejo runners are only built for Linux.”
“Yet it works perfectly which forgejo/gitea (uses the act runner)”
“the runner [2] is trivial to build (including cross-compiling) and run, and is on the whole just a much more solid piece of software”
“The Forgejo runner is tiny and you can build it even on unsupported platforms”
“which I use extensively to test whether a workflow is correct before pushing”
“Forgejo's agent is brilliant to be honest. It's a very well contained service, written in Go and builds in practically anything.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.