Hey all, I was looking for a place to host my projects that isn’t Github with options for closed source projects as well as open source. I was seriously considering GitLab until I realized how pervasive and invasive the Gitlab Duo marketing.
I’m going over to Atlassian tentatively and I may just host my own git server eventually. I just can’t take Gitlab more seriously than Github at this point.
How are other people handling being inundated wit AI ads for software coding? Am I missing something that should make me rethink GitLab?
Maybe gitlab-ce doesn’t include all the Duo stuff? I know it doesn’t include all the marketing spam stuff that pops up all the time when you have gitlab-ee installed. So it could be an option. I realise that Gitlab have to sell their product to make money, but once you start pushing too much in the way of spam or ads in the product it puts people off completely. Especially since in some cases you can’t hide it permanently. If it did pop up just once, and could be hidden it’s not as intrusive, but once you go too far with it, you aren’t going to win that way. It’s difficult to get that balance. Had the subscriptions been more affordable, people would have paid. GitHub Pro, $4 a month. Gitlab used to have an equivalent years back, but decided to remove it. That I feel was a bad move on their part. It’s better to make some money, than not at all.
Yes, Gitlab seems to have gotten a bit bloated as well, utilising too much cpu/ram which doesn’t fit for small teams. Especially when you can run it on your own Forgejo server and reduce ram usage to less than 1GB instead of the 5GB+ ram usage that Gitlab has which in later versions has gotten close to the 8GB ram limit of my machine. Forgejo + Postgres + Container Registry and even Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of it all on the same machine and not as resource hungry.