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Why do people not like gitlab? I’ve always found it a better experience than github

stronglikedan 4mo ago
same. so much more intuitive
selfhoster1312 4mo ago
Gitlab's UI changes every now and then, for seemingly no reason. The UI is very full of stuff (hard to find your way around), and very slow. Notably in the past months, they've changed the issues/tickets board into a "work items" board which feels infinitely slower to load, has such a vague meaning that nobody can find it (especially when translated), and brings exactly 0 use to anyone i know. They just seem to be doing that with every feature and every part of the interface. On the server side, gitlab was always very hard to selfhost with many moving parts, many requirements, and using much resources. gitlab-runner is not very explicit about things when you're not in the happy path (why is it not picking up jobs?). I'm not even a minimalist. I've been running gitea/forgejo for the past 8 years or so and it's been a miracle in comparison: lightweight server, easy setup/upgrades, and super simpler UI/UX that everybody understands on the first try. Forgejo (gitea community fork) learns from everything that Github historically made good (UX) without any enshitiffication in sight (developed by a non-profit). I highly recommend it.
plagiarist 4mo ago
If you're leaving based on security failures, Gitlab is not the place to go.
parliament32 4mo ago
Personally, they're going wayyy too hard on the AI stuff. I just want an interface to git and maybe an issue tracker.
dwedge 4mo ago
I tried self hosting gitlab. I installed it and got miffed that it wouldn't let me change password complexity requirements for a user, so I left it but left it running for "maybe later". Two weeks later it had spammed 50GB of logs to the disk and was idling at 11GB RAM. With zero repos and zero active users. I don't want a git interface to be full of bloat. That's why I don't like it. I'm moving a client from gitlab to forgejo at the moment.

same. so much more intuitive

Gitlab's UI changes every now and then, for seemingly no reason. The UI is very full of stuff (hard to find your way around), and very slow. Notably in the past months, they've changed the issues/tickets board into a "work items" board which feels infinitely slower to load, has such a vague meaning that nobody can find it (especially when translated), and brings exactly 0 use to anyone i know. They just seem to be doing that with every feature and every part of the interface. On the server side, gitlab was always very hard to selfhost with many moving parts, many requirements, and using much resources. gitlab-runner is not very explicit about things when you're not in the happy path (why is it not picking up jobs?). I'm not even a minimalist. I've been running gitea/forgejo for the past 8 years or so and it's been a miracle in comparison: lightweight server, easy setup/upgrades, and super simpler UI/UX that everybody understands on the first try. Forgejo (gitea community fork) learns from everything that Github historically made good (UX) without any enshitiffication in sight (developed by a non-profit). I highly recommend it.

plagiarist 4mo ago

If you're leaving based on security failures, Gitlab is not the place to go.

parliament32 4mo ago

Personally, they're going wayyy too hard on the AI stuff. I just want an interface to git and maybe an issue tracker.

dwedge 4mo ago

I tried self hosting gitlab. I installed it and got miffed that it wouldn't let me change password complexity requirements for a user, so I left it but left it running for "maybe later". Two weeks later it had spammed 50GB of logs to the disk and was idling at 11GB RAM. With zero repos and zero active users. I don't want a git interface to be full of bloat. That's why I don't like it. I'm moving a client from gitlab to forgejo at the moment.