Disregarding the contents of the article, if you looked at the thread of the "we're giving you less space" announcement, I saw a handful of people just here who

Disregarding the contents of the article, if you looked at the thread of the "we're giving you less space" announcement, I saw a handful of people just here who were like "wait, why do we have all these artifacts? why is there no automated (and documented) retention policy for this crap?" - so I think Gitlab have to blame themselves for this part. They don't deleted old stuff and don't even make it easy for the users to delete their old stuff - hard disk usage goes up. surprised pikachu face But yes, I know this is not the full story and I'm not even sure I have a Gitlab account, so I'm at least not an entitled user of their service in any noticeable manner ;)