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I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! T

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

mydigitalself 9y ago
Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.
- jasonrhaas 9y ago
  I am using the new navigation, love it.
- awill 9y ago
  I didn't know you there was a new UI. I just switched over. Definitely seems like an improvement. Good job everyone!
- jazoom 9y ago
  Question: why does it take about 5 seconds to load the list of projects when clicking on the dropdown arrow on the top left of the screen? It's even slower than loading the whole GitLab.com website, which includes a list of those projects. I find this a frequent annoyance and often choose to go back and load the full projects page just to change project.
connorshea 9y ago
Thanks, we'll keep making the product better. :) Glad to hear you're happy with the transition!
jasonrhaas 9y ago
While I'm at it, I may as well offer some other feedback as well: Pros - UI is top notch - Love the built in features (pipelines, CI/CD, docker registry) - Private repos, free stuff Cons - Performance is improving, but still seems a bit slow at times - Pipelines could be a bit faster. The build and test times seem to vary a lot per commit. - Better documentation on pipelines and the .gitlab-ci.yml file. It seems a bit fragmented and scattered over a few documents. - Maybe offer to add a default .gitignore in the repo, and a basic README (like github). Cloning an empty repo makes me sad.
- connorshea 9y ago
  We do have project templates now for a few web frameworks, and the web editor can give you .gitignore templates, but yeah we don't currently have a way of adding these files by default when creating a project.
- Snappy 9y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! As you know, we're constantly improving the performance. There's an issue for CI performance (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21624 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21624), please add any specific feedback you have there. For pipeline documentation, please consider creating an issue if you have any specific feedback. We'd love to know what we can improve there. We do offer .gitignore templates, so I assume you mean to offer them during project creation. Please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19468 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19468 and add any feedback.

mydigitalself 9y ago

Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.

jasonrhaas 9y ago
I am using the new navigation, love it.
awill 9y ago
I didn't know you there was a new UI. I just switched over. Definitely seems like an improvement. Good job everyone!
jazoom 9y ago
Question: why does it take about 5 seconds to load the list of projects when clicking on the dropdown arrow on the top left of the screen? It's even slower than loading the whole GitLab.com website, which includes a list of those projects. I find this a frequent annoyance and often choose to go back and load the full projects page just to change project.

connorshea 9y ago

Thanks, we'll keep making the product better. :) Glad to hear you're happy with the transition!

jasonrhaas 9y ago

While I'm at it, I may as well offer some other feedback as well: Pros - UI is top notch - Love the built in features (pipelines, CI/CD, docker registry) - Private repos, free stuff Cons - Performance is improving, but still seems a bit slow at times - Pipelines could be a bit faster. The build and test times seem to vary a lot per commit. - Better documentation on pipelines and the .gitlab-ci.yml file. It seems a bit fragmented and scattered over a few documents. - Maybe offer to add a default .gitignore in the repo, and a basic README (like github). Cloning an empty repo makes me sad.

connorshea 9y ago
We do have project templates now for a few web frameworks, and the web editor can give you .gitignore templates, but yeah we don't currently have a way of adding these files by default when creating a project.
Snappy 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback! As you know, we're constantly improving the performance. There's an issue for CI performance (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21624 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21624), please add any specific feedback you have there. For pipeline documentation, please consider creating an issue if you have any specific feedback. We'd love to know what we can improve there. We do offer .gitignore templates, so I assume you mean to offer them during project creation. Please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19468 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19468 and add any feedback.