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by pi-victor 2943 days ago
Tried both gitlab and bitbucket as alternatives. Bibucket server is a-b-y-s-m-al. We use it at work and the UX is so clunky and backwards and for a solution that is intended for enterprise use, most of the logic in the UI/UX seems to not be directed towards a multi-user environment at all. Bitbucket cloud is more or less the same experience.

Gitlab is known to be unstable and i'll give it to them, the UI improved a bit lately, it's still pretty bad and i wouldn't say it's very much oriented towards multi user collaboration. I think the main advantage of GitHub is that it was somewhat thought of as an open source hub/portal. Where you have easy access to other projects you wouldn't find without much of a hassle. They would just surface through the help of ratings (github stars).
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mrmondo 2943 days ago
I agree that bitbucket aka shitbucket like all Atlassian products is a POS, but GitLab is far from unstable? We moved to GitLab (self hosted) and it’s been nothing but incredibly reliable for our 120~ people organisation and we use it heavily for mission critical code control, CI/CD and internal Wikis, if it was even slightly unstable - there’s no way we’d still be using it let alone raving about it.
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sverhagen 2943 days ago
We doubled down on Gitlab some two years ago, coming at it skeptically with our experiences from the years before that. It's come a long way, it's a great product, but maybe the initial pains are still somewhat in our memories then?
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mrmondo 2943 days ago
Fair enough, there were a lot of radical UX changes early on but we’ve never had a problem with stability / reliability, by comparison we see a number of Github outages over any given year - to be fair that’s on the hosted product but I would most certainly not want to run Github ‘enterprise’ - it’s a VM image with MySQL and a bunch of other less than desirable technologies.
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pi-victor 2943 days ago
my bad - was referencing gitlab cloud. I've maintained a private gitlab instance for my team some 3-4 years ago that was dockerized, it went quite ok, despite docker being rather new at that point.
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