That’s great ! Web developement is always fun because you see results quickly.
Javascript never “clicked” with me but it’s a nice tool.
Depending on what you want you may want to try doing a bit of php next but never forget that HTML as a lot of nice tools, when I’m trying to do something I always go back to that list : https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/ and try to find if there isn’t a native html element that can do the trick.
Sadly github will continue to exist due to being where contributors are and being easy to find. I hope projects mirrors to forgejo as much as possible noneless.
This is already somewhat possible if your instance support an OIDC solution, you could create one account and use it as login everywhere as long as it’s host by the same people.
For example I use authentik to create accounts and with OIDC my users can login to jellyfin, nextcloud, vaultwarden, forgejo, …
But that would mean putting all your eggs in one instance.
I don’t know if email is a good solution. Having contributed to the linux kernel ( in 2010ish ) may have distorted my perception of the gitmail workflow but it doesn’t seems very accesible and i can’t possibly see a change allowing this to be usable by semi-technical users.
We really need something like https://forgefed.org/ !
Running all our own forgejo instance is well and good but this the strengh of github is not in it’s feature but rather it’s because it offer the largest platform. Using a federation protocol would allow users to contribute without needing one account per instances.
I hate the original “14 standards” xkcd comic with a passion. People should try shit and see if it works, if multiple standards works then compatibility layers/bridges will also be built.
I’m happy that multiple DE exist, I love having multiple choice for my init system (and I say this while liking a lot of what systemD offer), bootloader, text editor, etc…