Theming forgejo

Today, I want to theme my forgejo instance. After leaving GitHub to host my own Forgejo instance, I wanted to customize my Forgejo instance a bit. Nothing fancy though, I just want to change the primary color of the instance. Sounds easy at first, but it’s actually more complicated than you can imagine, because forgejo lacks support for advanced interface customization, and the documentation for theming is far from clear. Using themes Gitea supports themes (Forgejo is a Gitea fork), so we’re going to customize it that way, as I just want to change the color scheme of my instance. ...

August 28, 2025

I'm migrating from GitHub to Forgejo, and you should too.

Today is the day I finally made the move. I am leaving GitHub to host my own Forgejo instance, available here. Why? It might seem weird to move away from GitHub at first. I mean, it’s free, has a ton of features, a strong community, good SEO, free CI/CD… Why would you want to move away from that? There are 3 reasons why I’m moving off GitHub. I. Because we should all own our data. When we upload things to the internet, do we really know where they go? (This sentence looks like some conspiracy of some sort, but I swear it’s not) ...

August 27, 2025