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I tried gitlab but I hated the web interface. It was lacking in so many departments. Any other alternatives to github to try?

unixhero 7y ago
What was lacking? The GUI on Gitlab is phenomenal imo.
- hkitdog 7y ago
  On gitlab,repository and code searching function should be improved loll
  - penagwin 7y ago
    Same could be said for github. I regularly literally copy and paste a variable name from a file on Github itself - paste it into the search, and it finds 0 results. HOW COULD YOU FIND NOTHING?! Not even the file I copied it from? A simple grep search would've had no issue and would've been faster!
    - arghwhat 7y ago
      Yeah, I always end up having to clone the repo to grep.
danskyr711 7y ago
Bitbucket is pretty good
- stevekemp 7y ago
  Bitbucket suffers from all the usual problems of an Atlassian-product: A badly designed user-interface, and frequent stability/downtime problems.
  - mschuster91 7y ago
    Problem 1 with Atlassian is they're using Java. Problem 2 with Atlassian is that their portfolio is entirely made up out of stuff they bought up over years, with wildly different coding and UI/UX standards/history.
rnicholus 7y ago
This. The UI is quite primitive compared to GitHub IMHO. That and Gitlab is littered with half-implemented or poorly implemented workflows. The MR workflow to support code reviews was never really thought through.
- emilycook 7y ago
  Hi, GitLab employee, is there anything else (besides the MR workflow) specifically that you think we should improve? UI-wise or whatever else you've noticed
- xtracto 7y ago
  > The MR workflow to support code reviews was never really thought through. Uh, I've been using this for quite some time in GitLab and never found it lacking. Curious what do you find missing there?
arghwhat 7y ago
- sr.ht (OSS, managed, self-hosting) - Gitlab (sorta OSS, managed, self-hosting) - Gitea (OSS, self-hosting) - Gogs (OSS, self-hosting) - Bitbucket (managed) - Azure Repos (managed) - Google Cloud Repositories (managed) To be honest, Gitlab has come a long way. And things like search that people point out doesn't work well on Github either, where code search is super broken and often skips results or find nothing where a git grep would drown you in results.

unixhero 7y ago

What was lacking? The GUI on Gitlab is phenomenal imo.

hkitdog 7y ago
On gitlab,repository and code searching function should be improved loll
- penagwin 7y ago
  Same could be said for github. I regularly literally copy and paste a variable name from a file on Github itself - paste it into the search, and it finds 0 results. HOW COULD YOU FIND NOTHING?! Not even the file I copied it from? A simple grep search would've had no issue and would've been faster!
  - arghwhat 7y ago
    Yeah, I always end up having to clone the repo to grep.

danskyr711 7y ago

Bitbucket is pretty good

stevekemp 7y ago
Bitbucket suffers from all the usual problems of an Atlassian-product: A badly designed user-interface, and frequent stability/downtime problems.
- mschuster91 7y ago
  Problem 1 with Atlassian is they're using Java. Problem 2 with Atlassian is that their portfolio is entirely made up out of stuff they bought up over years, with wildly different coding and UI/UX standards/history.

rnicholus 7y ago

This. The UI is quite primitive compared to GitHub IMHO. That and Gitlab is littered with half-implemented or poorly implemented workflows. The MR workflow to support code reviews was never really thought through.

emilycook 7y ago
Hi, GitLab employee, is there anything else (besides the MR workflow) specifically that you think we should improve? UI-wise or whatever else you've noticed
xtracto 7y ago
> The MR workflow to support code reviews was never really thought through. Uh, I've been using this for quite some time in GitLab and never found it lacking. Curious what do you find missing there?

arghwhat 7y ago

- sr.ht (OSS, managed, self-hosting) - Gitlab (sorta OSS, managed, self-hosting) - Gitea (OSS, self-hosting) - Gogs (OSS, self-hosting) - Bitbucket (managed) - Azure Repos (managed) - Google Cloud Repositories (managed) To be honest, Gitlab has come a long way. And things like search that people point out doesn't work well on Github either, where code search is super broken and often skips results or find nothing where a git grep would drown you in results.