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I'd love to know what the magic recipe that GitLab uses to be so prominently in-your-face at all times on HN.

We've actually been trying to back off of HN, but the community posts just about anything that appears on our blog.

Because despite all the hate, GitLab is still pretty awesome to have.

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/04/gitlab-is-part-of-the-y-...

If you're implying that we did something to boost this post because Gitlab is a YC startup, we didn't. Matter of fact we penalized it as unsubstantive.

There's a standard moderation penalty for submissions whose only content is rallying users to some cause or event, since (however good the cause) that isn't intellectually interesting.

Thanks for giving it a penalty, I agree it isn't intellectually interesting and it doesn't belong on the HN frontpage.

Regret posting this. Sorry!

No problem, I agree with the sentiment expressed.

Other replies are implying vote rigging/bias. IMO, that's not the case in this instance, there are other terms which reliably get a lot of upvotes just because they are in the headline. (namely, Rust and Machine Learning)

It feels pretty obvious to me - it's a well managed, useful product that offers a hosted version for free for any use, and it's truly universal - there aren't many developers who don't want source code control.

There is also the 'FOSS version of a popular proprietary thing' angle and the openness of the project that means there is more news about it to post.

In general, it feels pretty natural to me it would get posted about a lot, and upvoted a lot.

Thanks, but I agree with the sentiment that it we're a lot of HN these days, I can see people getting tired of it.

Frankly, I didn't expect the issue bash to get upvoted. We have our postmortem coming in a few minutes. I'm sure that will be much discussed here. We considered postponing that post but we promised it for this week and feel like we owe it to our users.

I've instructed all our people not to submit articles to HN but we can't prevent others from posting.

They are YC company.

I'm waiting for them to release a backup runner that tests your backups.

Off topic but I saw one of the prizes is something called PocketCHIP. Googled what that was and actually tried it out on the product detail page (https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip). I really like this thing and had never heard of it until now. It's a very cool gadget. I just might have to get this. In addition to helping squash some bugs of course.

I got one for Christmas; first thing I did was apt-get install ssh-client.

The built-in keyboard is hard on the thumbs (especially trying to play games?) but can't think of anything else wrong with it in my limited experience so far. You can use an external keyboard or game controller.

The built-in tutorial and help system has a uniquely appealing attitude, I don't really know how else to explain it - it feels right. They've managed to hit their target market right on the bulls-eye! Here is a nice 3rd-party usability tips blog post: http://www.stevencombs.com/chip/2016/06/28/ten-things-about-...

Not using "How to git involved" was a missed opportunity.

Jokes aside anyone know what happened to their swag shop? The post reminded me that I was going to pickup a shirt awhile back but never did and now their shop is giving a 404.

We're in the process of migrating the swag store to another provider. Shoot me an email (see bio) and I'll see what I can do for you in the mean time.

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