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Thank you very much for the encouragement, I appreciate it after significant commenting today while flying from Mexico to San Francisco. You can rest assured we'll keep working on our vision https://about.gitlab.com/direction/product-vision/

The people that ask for fixes care about GitLab and are worth listening to. There is an almost infinite demand for new features and we can't make them all (even with more then 2000 open source contributors). But I've found that Hacker News readers have great insights and we'll keep listening and adjusting were we missed the mark.

GitLab as a company was born on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278 and although the tone these days feels like different I hope it is a bond for live.

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I just wanted to add that I have been absolutely loving gitlab. Signed up in 2014 and use it pretty much daily.

One of the biggest problems I had was the speed of the web ui but since the great github migration the speed increased massively and has stayed snappy.

Contributing code to GitLab has also been my favorite experience with open source as not only were my changes looked at, Gitlab developers actually helped me get things working and write better code.

Thanks so much for commenting, awesome to hear you're loving GitLab.

We made a lot of performance improvements, I'm glad you're benefitting from them. On https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/#p... you can see what we're measuring. The monitoring of our biggest merge request https://dashboards.gitlab.net/d/1EBTz3Dmz/sitespeed-page-sum... shows of our fixes regressed and we're looking into what is going wrong. Screenshot for people reading this in the future: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nlriugkzknu2tl9/Screenshot%202018-...

There is a lot more work to do and we'll keep shipping performance improvements in code and to our infrastructure. The tentative date for our migration to GCP is next weekend.

I'm so glad to hear that contributing code to GitLab was a favorite experience! Kudos to our merge request coaches who try to get every merge request over the finish line with a high quality.

The migration to GCP is now scheduled for August 11. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSSnHIgZoKXt_HuT...

I just want to let you know that I code just for hobby, super simplistic projects like notes app, javascrtipt utilities, personal blog on Jekyll etc, gitlab @ davchana, I absolutely love Gitlab, and have been using it since almost two years. Before it I always had to find a free hosting, with lot of shaddy banner ads or unreliable systems. Gitlab.com free edition has everything I wish for, & occassionally I read & wander in gitlab.com issues repo just to see & be amazed on new improvements being made. Being a completely remote company is a cherry on top.. Great Work!!

Thank you very much!

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