It’s really hard to beat the reliability, security, UX, and speed of GitHub. GitLab in my experience has always felt clunky and performed various operations very slowly in comparison to GitHub (whenever I use it, I feel like I’m just waiting on GitLab to do things).
I’d love a good more open source ethos GitHub alternative, but I don’t think that’s GitLab… Maybe GitTea in a few more years(?)
Apparently trying to keep up with GitHub. Gonna take plenty more where that came from to hit that.
Good riddance, I say. Who needs 'em.
It is up again!
How is gitlab doing these days? I created a gitlab account back when they started, but I’ve gone back to github, and not used gitlab much.
They started out doing well but they’re getting worse IMO. They nerfed the CI availability into the ground for open source project use to the point it’s basically unusable. You eat up your pathetic 400 minutes a month in no time. Basically, if you want CI you have to provide your own runners now. They have definitely been following the enshittification trends of late. They grew to prominence as an open source GitHub alternative and now they barely support open source on the platform. Definitely hoping a third alternative becomes viable with CI that is actually usable for open source projects.
forgejo and gitea are implementing activitypub rn. Soon you will be able to create issues and participate in discussions from the comfort of the fediverse.
