Forgejo vs GitHub vs gitlab

I can see that. It's just that as far as git web UIs go, I'm baffled because to me this is *the* central feature of a git web UI. I could imagine migrating a project from GitHub to a gitlab instance without search for ideological reasons, but I couldn't pretend it's it's not la downgrade like going from git to CVS.

Probably this is exacerbated by how I work on systems, not any single repository. A really common use case for me is to search a repository for a specific error message or function name. Having a project hosted on a searchless instance basically forces me to either rely on unofficial GitHub copies or to check out the repository locally, which is just a major hassle if the only thing you want is to understand the immediate condition that triggers some error message.