I wanted to do a repository search on gitlab, as I often do on github to look for existing software projects to build off of. This because a project I found was

I wanted to do a repository search on gitlab, as I often do on github to look for existing software projects to build off of. This because a project I found was hosted on gitlab, and I thought there might be others as well if I looked for them. After creating an account I was able to search some of the keywords from the description of the one project I found, but very few results turned up; notably missing was the very project I found initially. I've noticed that github will sometimes rate limit me after performing a few too many searches, but I there approach is still better than gitlab's in this regard. I see this, among other things, as a serious deficiency of gitlab as a replacement for github in the space of hosting open software projects, as many have positioned it to be.