GitLab

“GitLab would benefit massively if they went back and deleted all of the crap they added during their "feature checkbox craze" years.”

“our backups never required downtime. The built in backup command doesn't require downtime but also isn't a consistent point in time snapshot”

“This is work that Patrick and GitLab have been doing for years now and it's very impressive and nearly complete.”

“They're going full-in on AI and each new release is more cluttered with useless features and requires more and more resources to run smoothly.”

“If you're a big company, you can afford having one engineer spend one or two days per year to maintain your self-hosted GitLab or Forgejo.”

“The key thing that drove our decision to self host gitlab was that WE were the ones in control of when things happened.”

“GL has better access granularity, better docs, better integrations, and you can clearly see the UI received a lot of attention”

“the reliability of self-hosted runners and the flexibility (and clarity) of the CI system was fantastic”

“it spammed 100GB of logs in a month and was using 11GB of RAM before I'd even gotten around to setting up the first repo”

“You can just self-host GitLab CE and use self-hosted ElasticSearch integration to set up code search”

“even when we bought SaaSes (e.g., GitLab)... I still needed to spend significant time on the recurring manual steps of backup processes”

“you can self-host your own version of GitLab and you would not be affected by their outages at all”

“I’ve been running an SMB trending mid market out of gitlab for the greater part of a year with no issues.”

“They've made a lot of progress in the recent years, and the last two major releases downright feel snappy”

“All of that core functionality works really well and is more than polished enough from my point of view.”

“I like GitLab CI/CD more than I do GHA, but that's personal preference/bias more than anything objective.”

“it's better in terms of organisational structure (you can have one, including access and secret inheritance)”

“Gitlab is so nice for this. You can group repos together so it is harder to lose track of stale projects.”

“The new UI is terrible, and the most important change they've done this year is ... drum roll ... renaming merge requests as "work items"”

“for every single problem I found, there was an open issue always at least 4-7 years old that was just being shuffled around by managers adding and removing random labels”

“it doesn't matter because if you want to you can self host it, where it performs absolutely fine too”

“Everything GiHub wishes it could be, never given enough credit, going to be key to the future of AI software development in a practical sense.”

“I think the only thing I miss from GitLab was being able to make merge requests depend on other merge requests”

“ooh boy is a private gitlab server complicated. Omnibus installation helps manage that, but if you outgrow it you're in for a complicated time.”

“Owned by companies that do not help the US Federal Government illegally spy on their own citizens and murder children overseas”

“a better way is to self host or use alternatives such as Codeberg or GitLab which at least you can self host your own”

“The platform itself is quite solid, and GitLab CI is extremely straightforward but allows for a lot of complexity if you need it.”

“Using Gitlab or Sourcehut is painful. I'm glad they both exist but the UI, in my opinion, is not as good as Github.”

“We used to host a GitLab instance in our enterprise. As a sysadmin that used that only occasionally, let me tell you, it took me a hundred times the time to figure out how to do something than actually doing it.”

“you're going to get less contributions than on Github as people just aren't going to want to sign into a second service”

“I prefer using GitLab for private projects but it means if I want to FOSS those I now need to support two different platforms”

“if you have the hardware for it and don't mind bit of bloat but all the needed features in one package”

“We self-host GitLab and I would fight a migration to GitHub with every fiber of my being. GitLab is just better in pretty much every way. Especially CI/CD.”

“Gitlab has gotten very bloated and despite disabling a number of services in the config, it continues to require increasingly more compute and RAM”

“Gitlab works fine for me. Been using it at work for a few years and recently moved all my personal repos there”

“Anyone who has ever used Gitlab, or dare my foul mouth say Jenkins, has experienced a better system than Github actions.”

“there has been so many critical updates pointing to highly exploitable CVE's that I had decided to simply migrate off it”

“It's never gone down for us, maybe an hour of downtime yearly as we upgrade Postgres to a new version.”

“It hits every feature checkbox, but they aren't well integrated, and they are kind of half way done.”

“while I don't like the way pages are organized for projects, I only really interact with the PR page and that is laid out well”