🛠️ Another reason to self-host Gitea

You own your data -- forever. You don't need to keep paying monthly fees if you decide to switch to a different system just to access your historical data and conversations.

I've been advocating that development discussions should happen in Git* issues/PRs/projects whenever possible, so the conversations have context. One requirement for this to work long term is that you need access to these conversations for the duration of a product, and perhaps beyond.

There is a hosting cost, but it is minimal ($5/mo on a Linode server). There is also some ops cost to keep things running and up to date, but in my experience, Gitea is cake to self-host compared to things like WordPress or Email. The benefit-to-effort ratio is huge.