BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg
BookStack has migrated its public repositories from GitHub to Codeberg due to growing discomfort with GitHub's direction under Microsoft ownership. The project maintainers cited concerns about privacy, platform openness, and GitHub's increasing focus on AI-driven features over traditional open source development needs. The migration includes all secondary repositories, which have been archived on GitHub with links to their new homes on Codeberg.
- ▪BookStack has officially moved its repositories from GitHub to Codeberg as of July 27th, 2024.
- ▪The migration was motivated by concerns over GitHub's AI-centric evolution, data usage for training models without opt-in, and alignment with Microsoft's commercial interests.
- ▪The project values openness and privacy, and the team believes using an open platform like Codeberg better aligns with those principles.
- ▪GitHub's limitations on LFS bandwidth and changes to user experience in favor of revenue generation were additional factors in the decision.
- ▪While GitHub provided benefits like free hosting, CI/CD via Actions, and sponsorship income, the maintainers prioritized long-term platform independence.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo — r/programming
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/4551 |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:29:11 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-28T17:59:40.768Z |
| Last seen | 2026-04-28T17:59:40.768Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 25Zo_OFvmuBc · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
BookStackApp / BookStack Public Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 2.4k Star 18.8k Code Issues 0 Pull requests 0 Security and quality 8 Insights Additional navigation options Code Issues Pull requests Security and quality Insights {"payload":{"preloaded_records":{},"structured_data":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Moving away from GitHub readiness plan","articleBody":"**Update**: The project has now finally migrated to https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.