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Comment by oneepic | Hacker News Reader

This is kind of a shitty, disrespectful thing to post. Really it's just insulting a competitor. I'm not a fan of GitLab's decision either, but this shouldn't be frontpage HN.

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We called out the increasing signups at GitLab when GitHub got acquired, so from our side it is more than fair that Drew is posting this.

BTW As Drew said https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... we're pumping the brakes on the telemetry changes.

I think OP was referring to this specifically:

> If my competitors keep making stupid decisions then making SourceHut successful will be pretty easy

He could have posted the same thing with the same effect without being outright rude.

Ah, thanks. I only looked at the first post https://cmpwn.com/@sir/103018233505800721 not the rest of the thread.

Yeah, Gitlab has indeed been known for some shitty PR. Like repeatedly accusing Github of copying features, even though Gitlab as a whole started out as an almost identical clone of Github.

Drew treats his Mastadon as a somewhat personal place and had not intended it to be posting here. So yes, perhaps it shouldn’t be here, but it’s not really insulting a competitor.

See:

https://cmpwn.com/@sir/103018388460813380

https://cmpwn.com/@sir/103018399211308183

https://cmpwn.com/@sir/103018430813804744

You're joking right? This is being posted on a personal account by one half of Sourcehut against a company that has had over $400 million in funding. Respect has to be earned and Gitlab have lost a lot of respect over this.

Pouncing on weakness is the essence of competition. As long as nothing is being misrepresented, taking full advantage of missteps is practically an obligation.

Sure... although there is also the "don't interrupt your competition when they are making a mistake" angle which would engender less vocal protest

What's more rude, the comment from DeVault or gitlab clearly acting against the interests of their users?

I know which one offends me more.

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