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Gitlab is really nice, but the user experience isn't quite as slick as Github's. Understandable, since Github has a lot more engineers behind their infrastructu

Gitlab is really nice, but the user experience isn't quite as slick as Github's. Understandable, since Github has a lot more engineers behind their infrastructure. I think Gitlab's current user base is for developers/startups who want VC backups for their private codebases. I'd probably use Gitlab if I were developing a private project that I didn't plan on releasing. Github, by design, is friendly towards people who want their code to be open to the world and encourage exploration of interesting projects. It's a great for sharing research code, and many big companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Disney, Pixar) already put their stuff there. It's highly unlikely these big fishes will move to Gitlab anytime soon.

_wmd 11y ago
Definite +1 on the italicization of 'quite'.. GitHub's UX advantage over Gitlab is marginal at best, at least as far as their web client is concerned. The desktop experience is pretty nice, but we've otherwise got SourceTree for non-developers who need a decent UI. Gitlab is the first piece of open source I've seen in probably a decade where I haven't a single bad word to say for it, their attention to detail is superb, starting with the installation process. I'm usually by default a critic of pretty much anything I encounter (aka. "typical HN comment author") but I find myself advocating Gitlab constantly