[yjlim5]

My team and I switched from bitbucket to gitlab a few months ago and we love the transition. Gitlab provides a lot of value to me and my team who are learning how to code while working on side projects. Although we cannot send merge requests today because of this issue, we are all cheering them on. I’m very happy that they are so transparent about their issues because my team and I are learning so much from their report and insights here on HN comments. Good luck!

[eblanshey]

Would you mind explaining what you like about gitlab better than bitbucket? They seem to be on par with each other, including integrated CI.

[songzme]

I like gitlab's issue tracking. Its faster (from a productivity standpoint) and easier to manage compared to Jira + Bucket, which feels a bit too bloated.

[0x0]

For me, privately self-hosted CI runners was a killer feature. Bitbucket only seemed to offer limited-minutes shared runners when I looked.

[yjlim5]

One major reason was that our team was growing and Gitlab allowed us to add them, whereas BitBucket was limited to 5 devs.