It is up again!
…sorta
AAAAAAAAAA… wait, we moved to gh 6 months ago. Nvm.
Why not self host gl xd
*glancing over our ops team*
Yeah, that ain’t happening soon.
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(?)
Did they accidentally nuke the entire database again?
Where I work has a local instance of GitLab that is completely off the grid from the internet. In addition, we have things like Atlassian tools and some other various things with offline licenses.
Every day, we hop in a big channel to ask “okay what’s down today?” “Can’t edit Confluence” “Great, not like I needed to do all of my documentation today.”
Best one lately is “someone revoked all permissions on Confluence and they don’t have a backup so we have to manually add all 1400 of you.” I got given admin perms though, so that’s nice.
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.
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.
That sounds nice
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.
Good riddance, I say. Who needs 'em.
