> Why is their UI (which is Forgejo, fork of Gitea) such a blatant clone of GitHub’s?
because their project goal is to iterate on the ownership model, not to iterate on the web design.
I use a self-hosted forgejo instance now (as of like, a week ago, let's see if I stick with it haha). I like GitHub the piece of software just fine, but I don't like the idea of my code training copilot. I think the design of GitHub is fine and people already know it, so I like that. If the reason you would want to not use GitHub is the design, gitea or forgejo will probably not be to your liking.
because their project goal is to iterate on the ownership model, not to iterate on the web design.
I use a self-hosted forgejo instance now (as of like, a week ago, let's see if I stick with it haha). I like GitHub the piece of software just fine, but I don't like the idea of my code training copilot. I think the design of GitHub is fine and people already know it, so I like that. If the reason you would want to not use GitHub is the design, gitea or forgejo will probably not be to your liking.