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Ask HN: Why are you publishing new projects on GitHub instead of Gitlab?

11 pointsKelteseth12 comments

Remember when everyone switched to GitLab when Microsoft bought GitHub? I haven't seen one big startup/FOSS using Gitlab.com (let's exclude self-hosted like freedesktop). Looks like even the monthly outages are not reason enough for people to switch.

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I used to do Gitlab and bitbucket, but it was more effort. The UI/UX isn't as nice, from the frequent logging in, difficulty of finding repos, reviewing PRs, and so on.

GitHub just works. Monthly outages are rare and it's git; your data is code is all on your device.

Everyone? GitHub continues to do the job I need of it, and does it well, and for free. I'm no particular fan of Microsoft, FWIW.

I use Gitlab for all my private repos. But GitHub is simply the place you want to be for public repos. It's the product most are familiar with and allows you to leverage GitHub's network effects with starts and forks.

Because Gitlab is blocked for my country.

I had a GitHub account before Microsoft bought it, and the service has only gotten better since. I see no strong reason to change. Mostly, the stuff up there is a service to others, and just a backup of what's already on my machine. So a rug pull wouldn't kill me.

S'all about the flash. Remember when the ShowHN posts included how-to-game-the-github-commit-graph? I imagine there was a brief time when some recruiters were found to be looking at those as a kind of first-round filters.

Last year or so GitLab decided they needed to start making money so they started moving feature from the "free" column to the "pay for it" column.

We used gitlab for 2+ years. Eventually decided to move back to github because gitlab is slowly becoming more user hostile.

i have tried gitlab before microsoft bought github. no i didnt go to gitlab because thee ui ux just sucks.

the UI is just not as intuitive as github. when using gitlab i need to google stuff, i need to read docs, i need to read explanations on where to find x and y.

as a user, gitlab ui is some of the worst i've ever used

I'm not sure if I'd consider it the worst, but github ui (with its own issues) definitely feels way more friendly than gitlab

Lazyness. Stars.

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