> We need it too to improve the the user experience of the product. I really appreciate you guys engaging in this public discussion. I hope you take what follo

> We need it too to improve the the user experience of the product. I really appreciate you guys engaging in this public discussion. I hope you take what follows in the friendly spirit I intend: > We need it too to improve the the user experience of the product. This ^^^^ sounds like exaggeration to me. Taken literally, you're saying that the gitlab user experience could not be meaningfully improved without adding telemetry. I'm not a UI designer, but I'm fairly sure that before telemetry existed, product-improving iterations were a thing. But based on other people's comments, I think this is a tangent. I suspect that 99% of people's upset is making the telemetry something other than opt-in. I suspect that if gitlab would just commit to making telemetry opt-in and GDPR-compliant, all would be right with the world.