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"It has been a crazy 24 hours for GitLab. More than 2,000 people tweeted about #movingtogitlab. We imported over 100,000 repositories, and we've seen a 7x incre

"It has been a crazy 24 hours for GitLab. More than 2,000 people tweeted about #movingtogitlab. We imported over 100,000 repositories, and we've seen a 7x increase in orders." That's quite an impact!

ivl 8y ago
Sounds like quite an overreaction to the MS purchase of GitHub. Good for GitLab, though, they certainly deserve the extra traffic.
- mjw1007 8y ago
  I think it's likely that there are fair number of people who were already thinking "I should probably move to GitLab one day", and have taken the recent announcement as a reason to actually get round to it (rather than being directly motivated by disgust for Microsoft or similar).
  - bovermyer 8y ago
    I fall into this camp. I'm not particularly bothered by Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, but I've been eyeing GitLab for awhile now. This just gave me an excuse to pull the trigger.
- behringer 8y ago
  It's not an overreaction. MS sucks, they ruin everything they touch. Move to gitlab with literally one button, move on with your life like nothing happened. What's not to like?
  - briandear 8y ago
    What’s not to like? Moving to GitLab. I actually like Github. It works and works well. Change for change sake is a bad motivation for such a critical part of software development. If MS “ruins” Github, then I could move then right? Because it’s so easy? Right now, Github isn’t ruined, so what is so compelling about moving now? I am failing to see the emergency. What happens if GitLab is bought by someone else we don’t like? Do we move again? It’s tiring to keep up with all of the things about which we should be outraged. I just want a rock solid product that works. GitHub does that, so what is so compelling about moving to GitLab?
    - behringer 8y ago
      We all liked github. It's not github anymore. Let's pretend it's call MS Hub and now tell me you still like it. If you do, that's fine. By moving now you're doing a number of things. First, you're telling your contributors and users that you don't like having access to your software controlled by MS. Second, you're supporting their competitor now when they need you, rather than when you need them. Github's competitors may not be around in 5-10 years when you will finally need them, unless they are supported now. Thirdly, it tells MS that you will move if they meddle again, if everyone jumps ship for gitlab et al. then they are much less likely to buy gitlab down the road.
      - ivl 8y ago
        What do you mean 'meddle'? GitHub was looking to sell. Pretty badly by the numbers, considering how much money they were burning. GitLab has the issue of slowness, as their free service just isn't as good, because they can't afford to just burn VC money. That's why GitHub was good.
        behringer 8y ago
        Exactly what meddle means. If the developer community jumps ship as soon as MS acquires a developer tool, then MS will stop buying (and later ruining) developer tools.
knownothing 8y ago
They are also paying people to Tweet. That's the only way for people to get a discount.
- asdsa5325 8y ago
  Source?
  - knownothing 8y ago
    It's right in their blog post, if you read it https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/ https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/
    - aroch 8y ago
      They're not paying you to move, they're offering a discount... Semantics aside, this is a pretty common thing for a competitor to do when something negative comes out about their competition (Either giving out blanket discounts regardless of social media or having you verify a tweet some how)
      - trendia 8y ago
        I understand the value of guerrilla marketing, but at the same time it makes them seem less credible. Imagine if they offered a 75% discount for defending them or praising them on Hacker News! That would make any comment in support of GitLab suspect.
        sytse 8y ago
        I think many of the #movingtogitlab tweets were sent before we even offered a discount.
        ksec 8y ago
        They said more then 1000 were tweeted before they make the blog post. Now they have 2000 tweets. I bet most of those newer 1000 #movingtogitlab has absolutely nothing to do with the discount.

"It has been a crazy 24 hours for GitLab. More than 2,000 people tweeted about #movingtogitlab. We imported over 100,000 repositories, and we've seen a 7x increase in orders." That's quite an impact!

ivl 8y ago

Sounds like quite an overreaction to the MS purchase of GitHub. Good for GitLab, though, they certainly deserve the extra traffic.

mjw1007 8y ago
I think it's likely that there are fair number of people who were already thinking "I should probably move to GitLab one day", and have taken the recent announcement as a reason to actually get round to it (rather than being directly motivated by disgust for Microsoft or similar).
- bovermyer 8y ago
  I fall into this camp. I'm not particularly bothered by Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, but I've been eyeing GitLab for awhile now. This just gave me an excuse to pull the trigger.
behringer 8y ago
It's not an overreaction. MS sucks, they ruin everything they touch. Move to gitlab with literally one button, move on with your life like nothing happened. What's not to like?
- briandear 8y ago
  What’s not to like? Moving to GitLab. I actually like Github. It works and works well. Change for change sake is a bad motivation for such a critical part of software development. If MS “ruins” Github, then I could move then right? Because it’s so easy? Right now, Github isn’t ruined, so what is so compelling about moving now? I am failing to see the emergency. What happens if GitLab is bought by someone else we don’t like? Do we move again? It’s tiring to keep up with all of the things about which we should be outraged. I just want a rock solid product that works. GitHub does that, so what is so compelling about moving to GitLab?
  - behringer 8y ago
    We all liked github. It's not github anymore. Let's pretend it's call MS Hub and now tell me you still like it. If you do, that's fine. By moving now you're doing a number of things. First, you're telling your contributors and users that you don't like having access to your software controlled by MS. Second, you're supporting their competitor now when they need you, rather than when you need them. Github's competitors may not be around in 5-10 years when you will finally need them, unless they are supported now. Thirdly, it tells MS that you will move if they meddle again, if everyone jumps ship for gitlab et al. then they are much less likely to buy gitlab down the road.
    - ivl 8y ago
      What do you mean 'meddle'? GitHub was looking to sell. Pretty badly by the numbers, considering how much money they were burning. GitLab has the issue of slowness, as their free service just isn't as good, because they can't afford to just burn VC money. That's why GitHub was good.
      - behringer 8y ago
        Exactly what meddle means. If the developer community jumps ship as soon as MS acquires a developer tool, then MS will stop buying (and later ruining) developer tools.

knownothing 8y ago

They are also paying people to Tweet. That's the only way for people to get a discount.

asdsa5325 8y ago
Source?
- knownothing 8y ago
  It's right in their blog post, if you read it https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/ https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/
  - aroch 8y ago
    They're not paying you to move, they're offering a discount... Semantics aside, this is a pretty common thing for a competitor to do when something negative comes out about their competition (Either giving out blanket discounts regardless of social media or having you verify a tweet some how)
    - trendia 8y ago
      I understand the value of guerrilla marketing, but at the same time it makes them seem less credible. Imagine if they offered a 75% discount for defending them or praising them on Hacker News! That would make any comment in support of GitLab suspect.
      - sytse 8y ago
        I think many of the #movingtogitlab tweets were sent before we even offered a discount.
        ksec 8y ago
        They said more then 1000 were tweeted before they make the blog post. Now they have 2000 tweets. I bet most of those newer 1000 #movingtogitlab has absolutely nothing to do with the discount.