[bawolff]

Mirroring the code to github (or somewhere else) would solve that problem just as well.

Not dogfooding your own product seems like a huge red flag to me.

[throwaway894345]

There's clearly the intention to self-host, they seem to be waiting for support to ingest data from a GitHub data export which seems pretty reasonable.

[techknowlogick]

Yes, this is exactly the case. Lots of data, and low ratelimits don't mix. All except for the main repo have already migrated to gitea.com

Disclaimer: I'm one of the members of the technical oversight committee of the Gitea project, and am employed to work on Gitea.