If I Could Make My Own GitHub

My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich. Not rich like 'paid off the mortgage' rich. Rich like a man who owns a submarine he's never been inside. Rich like a man whose third wife has a skincare line. Tech-titan rich — the kind of money that buys you a compound in Wyoming and the confidence to wear the same gray t-shirt to congressional testimony."One of mine, for a long time, has been the dream of making a new forge. I was prompted to write this after reading the good post about Ghostty leaving GitHub but it's something I've written and talked about for a few years. Given how bad GitHub has become at its core job, it seemed like a fun opportunity to try and write up what my billionaire folly of a forge would look like. This folly would have less penile rockets filled with aging celebrities. What are the problems with modern forges?GitHub, GitLab and Gitea (those being the 3 I've used the most) are all modeled on effectively the same design. There…