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by philliphaydon 2935 days ago
Their gitlab website is much faster than a year ago. A year ago I moved all my repos from GitHub to gitlab because I had to cut some personal costs. I remember it took a while to load pages when navigating around the site. A week or so ago I logged in for the first time in a Long Long time to setup a project to share with someone to test some ideas. I was surprised that I wasn’t waiting for pages to load. It was much faster than it used to be. Still room for improvement but I did notice it was much faster.

So while they still have improvements to make it would be a lie to say they haven’t improved at all.
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jazoom 2935 days ago
Can confirm. The website is much faster and much nicer than it was a year ago.

Also, I don't think GitLab has had a long downtime recently. At least not for any of my projects.

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joshmanders 2935 days ago
Even with the influx of users due to this I was able to not only setup a repo, but push all code up, and deploy via GitLab CI all within minutes... Speed is very good. I don't notice a difference between it and GitHub.
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Vinnl 2935 days ago
> Also, I don't think GitLab has had a long downtime recently.

That mostly depends on whether you're using CI/CD I'd think, that's had some day-long outages/problems lately. Of course, GitHub doesn't even have it's own CI/CD, and GitLab's is amazingly flexible, so it's still the better product. But it'd be nice if it were more stable.

(Note: all this is on GitLab.com. If you self-host, it's presumably much better.)

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jazoom 2935 days ago
I use GitLab.com's CI/CD extensively. I guess the downtime was when I was asleep or something because I've never seen a day-long outage.
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Vinnl 2935 days ago
I don't encounter all of them myself - it depends on what I'm working on and perhaps also the timezone. That said, April 26th was the most recent occurrence for me where I was very happy I wasn't in the middle of a production deployment that I would have had to roll back. See the status updates on that day on https://twitter.com/GitLabStatus

(I am using the free tier though, so this is more informative than that I'm complaining.)

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Operyl 2935 days ago
Oh wow, it has been over a year since the GitLab database outage. That still feels like the other month to me. I'm getting old way too fast ...
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