diff --git a/plays/update_forgejo.yml b/plays/update_forgejo.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 97d9a4a..0000000
--- a/plays/update_forgejo.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
---- 
-- hosts: localhost
-  become: no
-  roles:
-    - { role: roles/services/update_forgejo }
-
diff --git a/roles/services/update_forgejo/tasks/forgejo.yml b/roles/services/update_forgejo/tasks/forgejo.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fc5531..0000000
--- a/roles/services/update_forgejo/tasks/forgejo.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
----
-
-- name: stop forgejo service
-  service:
-    name: forgejo
-    state: stopped
-
-- name: fetch latest archive version "{{ version }}"
-  get_url:
-    url: "https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/releases/download/v{{ version }}/forgejo-{{ version }}-linux-amd64"
-    dest: /usr/local/bin/forgejo
-    mode: '0755'
-    backup: yes
-    force: yes
-
-- name: start forgejo service
-  service:
-    name: forgejo
-    state: started
diff --git a/roles/services/update_forgejo/tasks/main.yml b/roles/services/update_forgejo/tasks/main.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9728eeb..0000000
--- a/roles/services/update_forgejo/tasks/main.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
----
-- name: check latest version
-  shell: |
-    curl -q -s -X 'GET'   'https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/forgejo/forgejo/releases/latest'   -H 'accept: application/json' | jq '.tag_name' | cut -d\" -f2 | tr -d v
-  args:
-    warn: false
-  register: latest_version
-
-- name: check installed version
-  shell: |
-    /usr/local/bin/forgejo -v | cut -d ' ' -f 3
-  register: installed_version
-
-- name: Install if latest is greater than installed version
-  when: latest_version.stdout is version(installed_version.stdout,'>')
-  include: forgejo.yml
-    version="{{ latest_version.stdout }}"
diff --git a/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/gitea.yml b/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/gitea.yml
index a1f59c4..5cac3b1 100644
--- a/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/gitea.yml
+++ b/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/gitea.yml
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@
     url: "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v{{ version }}/gitea-{{ version }}-linux-amd64"
     dest: /usr/local/bin/gitea
     mode: '0755'
-    backup: yes
-    force: yes
 
 - name: start gitea service
   service:
diff --git a/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/main.yml b/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/main.yml
index 4980a4d..b9f86c7 100644
--- a/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/main.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 - name: check latest version
   shell: |
-    curl -s -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest | grep tag_name | tail -1 | cut -d\" -f4 | tr -d v
+    curl -s https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest | sed 's#.*tag/\(.*\)\".*#\1#' | sed 's/v//1'
   args:
     warn: false
   register: latest_version