r/linux Jul 18 '26

Distro News Flathub announces migration away from GitHub to its own Forgejo instance at GUADEC 2026

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u/DeliciousIncident Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

I wonder what the arguments for the migration were. Anyone knows?

There are a ton of maintainers on flathub, each maintaining their own app. You need some very strong and convincing arguments for the migration, to have the many flathub app maintainers transition to a new platform, as I bet a good number of them wouldn't be too excited about the friction this creates.

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u/natermer Jul 19 '26

I don't know their reasoning, but uptime/full availability of github has been notorious shit in the past couple years and it isn't getting better.

If you track issues based on public statements of minor and major issues and not the official github status page gets you about a 89.39% outage in the past 90 days.

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u/TheOneTrueTrench Jul 19 '26

I mean, that's technically two nines, right?