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I moved my personal projects to Gitlab. Philosophical issues aside, it’s a great product.

Also, having borderline burnout maintaining popular open source projects on GitHub, there is refreshingly near zero issues filed on my Gitlab projects.

Fewer people already have accounts on Gitlab, creating a small barrier to participation, and sometimes that’s a good thing.

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I recently switched jobs to a company that uses GitLab after a long time of using GitHub and I really don't like it.

It could just be my lack of familiarity, but it feels less polished and more clunky.

Both work similarly enough it doesn't really matter that much to me.

My previous job used GitLab. I agree that it's less polished and more clunky, at least for the overlap of features it shares with GitHub. (Mostly code hosting and collaboration m.)

I think where it shines is as a DevOps platform. I'm not sure I would say any of the features are best in class but there is value in centralizing them in one place. It takes a lot of investment to get that value though.

What philosophical issues do you have with Gitlab?

Sorry, I referring to the objections that people have raised with GitHub, not Gitlab.

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