Tangled Knot
Shares rank 17 of 22 Git forges by recommenders
A free, lightweight self-hosted git server for the Tangled forge, praised for low maintenance, easy setup and handling large repos on your own hardware.
A free, lightweight self-hosted git server for the Tangled forge, praised for low maintenance, easy setup and handling large repos on your own hardware.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: 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 7 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
Host your own repos
“The cool thing is you can just host your own knot then. Host repos of whatever size you want.”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “Tangled – We need a federation of forges” “I'm delighted at the idea of having my own knot hosting my projects”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “The federated code forge”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Networking needs IPv4 NAT workarounds
“it only really reliably worked once I enabled lots of IPv4 NAT'ing”
Comment from 18 Jul 2026 in “Gleam Is Now on Tangled” Naming confusion between protocol and server
“If the protocol is called Knot, then call a server a Knot instance or Knot server.”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “Tangled – We need a federation of forges”
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See all 22 Git forges, rankedWhat people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I'm delighted at the idea of having my own knot hosting my projects”
“that makes it super light on resources to run”
“I recently got a spindle and a knot set up on my home server”
“setting up a knot via Nix or Docker is super easy”
“Having large git repos on a server near me is great”
“it only really reliably worked once I enabled lots of IPv4 NAT'ing”
“Since the initial setup, the only ops maintenance I've had to do is bump the knot-server version and redeploy”
“Tangled's Knot system feels like a really strong abstraction for this.”
“If the protocol is called Knot, then call a server a Knot instance or Knot server.”
“The cool thing is you can just host your own knot then. Host repos of whatever size you want.”
“so we ended up moving to Knot”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.