CodeFloe: A Public Git Forge in Germany, Built in the Open
Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge
CodeFloe is a new public Git hosting service running on Forgejo, hosted on Hetzner in Germany under EU law and GDPR. It offers a generous free tier with no feature paywalls; paid tiers only cover resource costs. Uniquely, its entire infrastructure—Ansible playbooks, OpenTofu modules, CI pipelines, and monitoring—is public, and it pledges never to train AI on user code or sell data. The platform also blocks abusive scrapers at the edge.
Your code is never training data. We do not train models on anything you store here, and we do not sell or hand your data to anyone who would.
- watusername
Being "professionally hosted" is not enough: You need a "cluefully developed" distributed git backend to be a GitHub competitor. Codeberg is already buckling despite being nowhere near GitHub's scale. When Codefloe gains more users/agents, it's going to suffer from the same fate since Forgejo/Gitea/Gogs just isn't a good foundation to build on top of.
- jiqiren
Free CI is what really is going to keep many on GitHub (Actions). Codeberg has Woodpecker CI requires a FOSS application to get approval to use limited free tier. CircleCI has a free tier also but doesn't look like official documentation for integrating with Forgejo.
Being able to produce x86_64/arm64 builds for macOS, Linux, and Windows for free is a minimum start to get movement to another provider IMHO. GitHub already does this.
- exiguus
As far as I can tell; it's not EU. It's Switzerland.
Which is a huge difference when you think about data protection and privacy.
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Btw: If I try to open the website in a normal browser, I can't, because they have some kind of protection.
- arjie
I just use Github as a backup and use my own git repos as primary. Works really well. CI/CD is blazing fast as well. You don't need all these complicated actions flows and all that. Just write for yourself. And a missing feature is a short prompt away. Especially useful is that Github has a co-tenancy problem and an untrusted input problem. For your own company, you can build that more surgically. I wouldn't normally go on the build side of buy v build, but write-to-deploy duration minimization is a strong value of mine and with agents you really need that tight.
- mtlynch
I've ported a couple of repos to CodeFloe in the last few days, and so far, so good. Performance is similar to when I self-host Forgejo on a dedicated VPS where I'm the only user, which is super fast. And their built-in CI is pretty nice.
It's a huge contrast to Codeberg, which struggles with basic navigation of the web UI and every git push or pull takes 2-10s.