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I love GitLab Better UI than GitHub and was first to provide free private repos

by citrus1330 6y ago

kingbirdy 6y ago
Bitbucket provided free private repos before Gitlab existed
- kroltan 6y ago
  Severely limited* free private repos
- 0xy 6y ago
  If only Bitbucket wasn't a typical Atlassian disaster it might be more popular. I've never used an Atlassian product that wasn't one of the slowest websites I've ever seen with an over-complicated UX that can only be described as sadistic (have you seen the multiple settings pages?). Gitlab and GitHub both blow Bitbucket out of the water, it's not even a competition.
efiecho 6y ago
> Better UI than GitHub I think that GitHub has a much better UI than GitLab. GitLab is slow and bloated compared to GitHub. Requiring Javascript for browsing the code repository is just bad design.
- deleted 6y ago
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- samdbeckham 6y ago
  GitLab employee here. As much as it pains me, I have to agree with you for the most part. Performance is one of the biggest pain points for our frontend team, but is something we're actively working on. Here's one of our epics to show our progress: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/716 https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/716 We're in the process of migrating parts of our codebase from haml templates to Vue apps, which does have the unfortunate downside of requiring javascript to run. We're looking into solving this with server side rendering, but it's early days right now. Here's the issue for that: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215365 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215365 If either of these things are things you could help with, we encourage you to contribute and help us make GitLab a better place.
  - efiecho 6y ago
    Well, that's interesting information. I believe it when I see it, but it could be that my criticism of GitLab is no longer valid at some point in the future.

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I love GitLab Better UI than GitHub and was first to provide free private repos

by citrus1330 6y ago

I love GitLab Better UI than GitHub and was first to provide free private repos

kingbirdy 6y ago
Bitbucket provided free private repos before Gitlab existed
- kroltan 6y ago
  Severely limited* free private repos
- 0xy 6y ago
  If only Bitbucket wasn't a typical Atlassian disaster it might be more popular. I've never used an Atlassian product that wasn't one of the slowest websites I've ever seen with an over-complicated UX that can only be described as sadistic (have you seen the multiple settings pages?). Gitlab and GitHub both blow Bitbucket out of the water, it's not even a competition.
efiecho 6y ago
> Better UI than GitHub I think that GitHub has a much better UI than GitLab. GitLab is slow and bloated compared to GitHub. Requiring Javascript for browsing the code repository is just bad design.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- samdbeckham 6y ago
  GitLab employee here. As much as it pains me, I have to agree with you for the most part. Performance is one of the biggest pain points for our frontend team, but is something we're actively working on. Here's one of our epics to show our progress: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/716 https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/716 We're in the process of migrating parts of our codebase from haml templates to Vue apps, which does have the unfortunate downside of requiring javascript to run. We're looking into solving this with server side rendering, but it's early days right now. Here's the issue for that: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215365 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215365 If either of these things are things you could help with, we encourage you to contribute and help us make GitLab a better place.
  - efiecho 6y ago
    Well, that's interesting information. I believe it when I see it, but it could be that my criticism of GitLab is no longer valid at some point in the future.