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Comment by therealmarv | Hacker News Reader

It seems most users here don't have gitlab.com in their radar and only mentioning Bitbucket as competitor. I've recently switched all my private personal repos to gitlab.com which also allows unlimited private repositories because gitlab.com seems to have better UI and more features than Bitbucket (when not buying any additional Atlassian Jira etc. products).

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Same here I love gitlab and especially their UI. I've seen some gitlab devs on here before too and they were really friendly. Only draw back is that the sites kind of slow for me, but so was github.

Good to note that self hosting Gitlab (CE in my case) is a breeze. I'm pretty bad at infra and sysadmin stuff and I've been maintaining an instance for a group of friends for about a year now with no issue.

Installation is easy, upgrading (even between major versions) is completely painless, you get integration with Gitlab Continuous Integration, the Community Edition doesn't feel artificially gimped to get you to switch to a paid plan, Gitlab is great at fixing security issues. I also love the UX and it's not missing any feature in my experience compared to GitHub/Bitbucket.

I'm not affiliated with Gitlab in any way but it's honestly one of the rare pieces of software I only have praise for.

For all of my personal projects I use GitLab. It has about the same amount of features as GitHub (more in many areas, in fact) and it's free for most usage, even private.

GitLab and BitBucket are going to eat GitHub's lunch if they don't change this crazy pricing model.

Glad to hear you like GitLab!

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