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GitLab's primary focus is on selling a product, not GitHub-like services. The hosted instance at gitlab.com is incidental to this. The number of commenters on

by tw20190511demje 7y ago

GitLab's primary focus is on selling a product, not GitHub-like services. The hosted instance at gitlab.com is incidental to this. The number of commenters on HN who don't seem to get this is weirdly high. GitHub is competing for your attention and trying to convince you to use github.com similar to the way that Facebook wants you to use their site. GitLab is not. If you don't want to use gitlab.com because of low uptime, GitLab doesn't care. GitLab cares about whether you want to buy a GitLab license. If you're not in the market for that, then you were never a potential customer, anyway. Expecting GitLab to care about what you think about the ops history for gitlab.com is like thinking that a car dealer cares about how satisfied the people are who come in to have a coffee, eat a cookie, and test drive a car from the showroom, and never intend to buy anything. That's what gitlab.com is: a showroom.

amingilani 7y ago
> GitLab's primary focus is on selling a product, not GitHub-like services ... The number of commenters on HN who don't seem to get this is weirdly high. You're mistaken. This was true at one point, but no longer. GitLab maintains a document comparing itself to GitHub[0], has mature pricing tiers that go up to $99 per user[1], encouraged users to switch during the Microsoft acquisition by giving discounts on their higher tiers[3], and has paid me $500 in a bug bounty for reporting business logic flaws that allowed free users to leverage APIs that they shouldn't have had access to according to their plans. If you're actively pulling devs to your product, and even charging them. Make sure your product stays up. Also, please don't scorn people that disagree with you. Some times it's not them that "don't seem to get" it. [0]: https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/github-vs-gitlab.html https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/github-vs-gitlab.html [1]: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ [2]: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/ https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/ [3]: The report is redacted, but you can see the bounty at my HackerOne profile: https://hackerone.com/gilani https://hackerone.com/gilani

amingilani 7y ago

> GitLab's primary focus is on selling a product, not GitHub-like services ... The number of commenters on HN who don't seem to get this is weirdly high. You're mistaken. This was true at one point, but no longer. GitLab maintains a document comparing itself to GitHub[0], has mature pricing tiers that go up to $99 per user[1], encouraged users to switch during the Microsoft acquisition by giving discounts on their higher tiers[3], and has paid me $500 in a bug bounty for reporting business logic flaws that allowed free users to leverage APIs that they shouldn't have had access to according to their plans. If you're actively pulling devs to your product, and even charging them. Make sure your product stays up. Also, please don't scorn people that disagree with you. Some times it's not them that "don't seem to get" it. [0]: https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/github-vs-gitlab.html https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/github-vs-gitlab.html [1]: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ [2]: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/ https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/ [3]: The report is redacted, but you can see the bounty at my HackerOne profile: https://hackerone.com/gilani https://hackerone.com/gilani