Bart PiotrowskiMay 12
GitLab could have won by not doing anything at all but they would rather be renaming issues to work items, adding a dumb split view for the issue tracker, and working on other misfeatures no one asked for, anything but fixing 5+ years old bugs and half-assed functionality. And this doesn’t even touch the layoffs and “AI first” pivot.
Show threadGloopsies May 12

@barthalion

The reason I will never use gitlab is that it requires me to give them my phone number and credit card number to do basically anything on a freshly made account.

I want to escape GitHub, but GitLab is somehow even worse then unreliable microslop code stealing machine

Show threadAlice May 13
@gloopsies @barthalion it... never required either of those? I don't understand what you mean
Show threadGloopsies May 13

@alice @barthalion

I have an old account that didn't require either of those, but new accounts do require them

Show threadAlice May 13
@gloopsies @barthalion huh

do you mean on like gitlab.com specifically?
Show threadGloopsies May 13

@alice @barthalion

Yes, I am not talking about self hosted versions or gnome's GitLab

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@alice @barthalion

I just tried creating a new account and this greeted me. Last time I tried to do so it also required me to insert credit card information to be able to use gitlab pages

May 13 at 12:52pmWeb
Show threadAlice May 13
@gloopsies @barthalion huh, ig it's specific to the US

@luna just tried to do it too, it asked her email code only.
Show threadGloopsies May 13

@alice @barthalion @luna

I am not in the US tho...

Show threadAlice May 13
@gloopsies @barthalion @luna well, specific to wherever you are then

(we're not in the US nor EU)
Show threadAlice May 13
@barthalion @gloopsies @luna point is that - fair enough, I've never seen it and looks like it's still not a thing here
Show threadGloopsies May 13

@alice @barthalion @luna

I plan on migrating to codeberg, but it currently doesn't support using pages with CI/CD (if you want to use a custom domain), so we will be staying on GitHub until that changes (hopefully soon)