November 11, 2025
Push it real good
Grebedoc – static site hosting for Git forges
Community-run ‘GitHub Pages’ clone sparks memes, confusion, and domain drama
TLDR: Grebedoc is a community-run alternative to GitHub Pages that hosts sites from code repos, with a push-based setup and plans to raise size limits. Comments bounced between praise for the indie vibe, jokes about the upside-down favicon, and confusion over compatibility and that first-push-over-http quirk.
Grebedoc just dropped as a community-run, open-source take on GitHub Pages, and the comments are already doing cartwheels. Run by Catherine “whitequark” and crew, it promises easy static site hosting from your code repo, global servers, and plans to boost site size from 768 MiB to a hefty 10 GiB. But the crowd is here for the vibes: one eagle-eyed commenter spotted the upside-down Codeberg favicon and turned it into a mini-meme, while others wrestled with the big question—is this only for Codeberg, or does it play nice with other forges too? Hint: yes, it’s designed for Codeberg but works with others.
There’s drama around the “push-based” setup (you have to tell the server your site changed), which fans say is more efficient, but skeptics grumble about extra setup. The rule that your first webhook must use plain old http had folks clutching pearls—“http in 2025?!”—before calming down when they realized it upgrades to https. Domain verification via TXT records sparked DNS war stories and jokes about “TXT record CrossFit.” Meanwhile, someone asked, “Does it work with Tangled?” and half the thread just went, “Wait, what’s Tangled?”
Overall vibe: people love the indie spirit, appreciate the status page and backups, and are absolutely here for the memes. The open-source pages wars continue—and the comments are winning.
Key Points
- •Grebedoc publishes the pages branch of Git repositories as static websites on user domains, acting as a community-operated alternative to GitHub Pages.
- •The service runs on git-pages with Caddy, uses Rage4 anycast to route to VPS nodes in six global regions, stores content on Tigris, and backs up to Wasabi.
- •It uses a push-based architecture requiring forges to notify the server via CI or webhooks, unlike pull-based Codeberg.page.
- •Current site size limit is 768 MiB, with plans to increase to 10 GiB; the service is monitored and intended to operate indefinitely.
- •Detailed setup instructions are provided for users with and without domains, including webhook configuration and domain verification via DNS TXT records.