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by melony 1095 days ago
The Gitea team is full of crypto shillers.

https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/a-message-from-lunny-on-gitea-...

Their founder claims to have invented Gogs (he was one of the early committers) when the original author is another engineer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea

> Gitea was created by Lunny Xiao, who was also a founder of the self-hosted Git service Gogs.

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/three-years-at-sourcegrap...

> About the author Joe Chen is Software Engineer and maintainer of the open source project Gogs, a painless self-hosted Git service. You can chat with Joe on Twitter @jc_unknwon or our community Discord

2 comments

Just to clarify, we (Gitea) are not crypto shillers, the linked post explicitly mentions not creating some scamcoin. Beyond that, we also haven't looked further into it as it became increasingly clear it was unwanted.

I'm unsure about the wording on Wikipedia, but I don't recall Lunny ever trying to take all the credit, just that he was an early and frequent committer.

And that's why I'm betting on Forgejo https://forgejo.org/