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0 pointsPhilipp__9y ago0 comments

Have you actualy used Gitlab? I can't say they are becoming bloated, because they services are of high quality? Have you tried their CI/CD? Github is stagnating. Yeah, they are industry standard, but competition is best thing that can happen to them and users.

I haven't seen them promoting that hard as you describe.

I wrote my comment of the pure satisfaction with their services and my use case. So stop being ignorant and be civilized and at least argument what you say. What happened to them month ago was an accident that could happen to many others, but the difference was that they were 100% open about it, with others you may won't even know shit is happening.

Nobody forces you to use anything.

Edit: And now you edit and delete 90% of comment, nice.

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aaron-lebo9y ago· 3 in thread

Have you actualy used Gitlab? I can't say they are becoming bloated, because they services are of high quality? Have you tried their CI/CD? Github is stagnatingn. Yeah, they are industry standard, but competition is best thing that can happen to them and users.

I have. I've installed Gitlab and Mattermost on my own server. Gitlab is great but I found Slack was a better product (over Mattermost). Have you tried installing it?

I created a Gitlab account and was planning on using it over Github but their recent data loss scared me off. Is that unreasonable? It worries me just as much to see them buying a company a month after that. Is slowing down unreasonable?

I want to use Gitlab. I like their open approach, but if people just praise them without being objective about it it doesn't benefit any of us. I might just be a selfish and/or entitled user but you'll forgive me for wanting Gitlab to be good. Don't you?

j_s9y ago

I found Slack was a better product (over Mattermost). Have you tried installing it?

No, please tell me how you installed a Slack server! (j/k, but it's also kind of the point: GitLab wins on-prem)

it339y ago

Hi @aaron-lebo,

Mattermost team here, would welcome any feedback on how we could improve.

Here's a demo of Mattermost features vs Slack as FYI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKqHWqrAgpk

aaron-lebo9y ago

Hey, thanks.

I had some confusion with the install. It seems the Docker install is favored, but not using a lot of Docker stuff I went with the gitlab-omnibus install on Ubuntu 16.10.

It worked but I didn't feel especially comfortable with it, there were a number of steps. That's vague enough be useless and it could have just been my own ignorance. What is the suggested install if that isn't too basic of a question?

I also had issues with it not liking users sending rather large files but I believe that's an odd use case.

I would use it again but the simplicity of Slack (no setup and no management) won out for now.

johnsea9y ago· 1 in thread

Imo github has the much better user interface. I wouldn't say gl became bloated, but it is not easy to navigate around. At one point, I think, it is necessary to 'rethink' the UI, i.e. to arrange the parts into one consistent beautiful whole.

(My comment excludes the CI part)

Philipp__OP9y ago

That is true. GitHub really got it with the UI, and it was so easy to get used to. Later on, I was thinking I was having slight problems with GL's interface because I was so used to GitHub, but after some time spending on GitLab, I think they really could rethink the UI.

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