Yeah, they were definitely down again: https://lemmy.today/post/23792488

And they definitely got spammed again.

I think that’s just you, it works fine for me

@vortexal @opensource @RmDebArc_5 I got the same emails - and sine I was curious I opened the URL (after carefully checking that it really pointed to codeberg). And I was really impressed that the @Codeberg team obvviously already reacted and removed the project. Thanks for talking care!

Same. Thrice

Turn off downvotes so you don’t have to care

The other answers are right, just explaining in simpler language in case anyone needs it:

Codeberg, like Gitlab and Github, is a site for hosting and managing code repositories. These make it easy for many people to collaborate on a software project, review code, keep track of changes and history, keep track of bugs and feature requests, and more.

Here's an example of a (very active) code project to explore: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity (An audio editor based on Audacity)

The most famous code repo management tool, GitHub, was bought by Microsoft a few years ago, so reliable community-run alternatives like Codeberg are increasingly important.

It's a code forge like Github or Gitlab. It uses open source technology on its backend and is often used by FOSS/privacy-minded projects.

It's a thing for people to share git repositories and see the diffs and send changes. Common alternatives are gitlab and github. Codeberg is a fork community maintained after the original owners started to be weird and doing stuff that people didn't like. It's written in Go language. Small and fast for people to deploy themselves and maintain, in complete opposite from the common alternative people used gitlab which is a huge pain to self host and needs enormous resources.