Actually I would want that announcement feature.

to me it’s easier to look through an issue page on forgejo than a chain of mails. search is also easier: inside an issue I can ctrl+f, and across issues of a project there’s a search tool. but how would you search across all issues of a specific project (repo)?

forgejo issues can also have tags, associated projects and milestones for organization. also pinned issues for better visibility for newbies and/or easier access to anyone.

mailing lists are like a discord or matrix chat to me: a mostly disorganized flow of messages. probably there are ways to organize it, but doesn’t it need the explicit cooperation (e. g. in using a uniform formatting for mail titles) of all participants, including newbies?

I’m not allergic to emails, I use them a lot, but I think a mailing list is not a federated github, but a mess.

Forgejo is a much better choice in my opinion.

github is not just about git though.

That’s very weird as with docker on windows you technically run your containers in a linux vm, and besides that, in my experience windows is not nearly stable enough to be useful for running services.
All while I have been deploying selfhosted services for myself without problems on Linux for years. My only problem has been the constantly overloaded system, but that’s no surprise when you run heavy services on the 10+ year old portable hard drive system disk. Windows would only perform worse in that environment.