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If you're only using GitHub for version control, is there any particular reason you aren't using something else like GitLab? Is it integration with third party
by pluma 11y ago
If you're only using GitHub for version control, is there any particular reason you aren't using something else like GitLab? Is it integration with third party products?
- pluma 11y agoNot sure why I get downvoted. I'm genuinely interested in an opinion. I've repeatedly evaluated GitHub and its competitors for various non-open-source projects and the costs simply never justified using it.
- jacalata 11y agoPeople discuss the drawbacks of moving off github in the linked discussion. The big one seems to be visibility.
- pluma 11y agoThe linked discussion is about an open source project. The GP was talking about (what sounds like) closed source projects. The requirements are very different, hence the question.
- glenngillen 11y agoProbably a number of reasons: * Inertia. GitHub is mostly good enough most of the time. Actually in many areas it's actually downright fantastic. The few really rough areas aren't enough to justify throwing everything else away. * Trust & Stability. They've done a great job of cementing their credibility when it comes to taking uptime, performance, and security seriously. * Design. GitLab in particular still looks like a cheap knock-off. Having worked a number of years for a company that cares about design I've come to appreciate that the lack of attention to detail in things like this. * Insufficient appeal elsewhere. No alternatives clearly do everything I currently do + the things I want an order of magnitude better to justify a switching cost. The alternatives last time I looked largely appear to have some feature parity, some bits missing, the occasional thing better. It nets out at same same.