As per our current investigations, the scaling issue mostly originate from bottlenecks in the software architecture, and "just adding more hardware" does not solve them. We are investigating to scale up and improve performance, but the outcome is open.

The history of these problems is long, and you can start reading here about

- database deadlocks: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/220
- human bottlenecks: https://blog.codeberg.org/the-hardest-scaling-issue.html

If you want to help …