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Wow gitlab. Right when everyone was looking to see if you could lead with all the fails at github, you basically said "We're going to throw our source at ChatG
by Steeeve 4mo ago
Wow gitlab. Right when everyone was looking to see if you could lead with all the fails at github, you basically said "We're going to throw our source at ChatGPT and see what happens"
- herpdyderp 4mo agoRight? I was seriously considering migrating everything in our company from GitHub to GitLab. Now I'm seriously considering self hosting our git instead.
- youre-wrong3 4mo agoI find these takes funny. One day you will leave or get let go and someone will be like “finally we can move to a proper system”
- phoronixrly 4mo agoTimes change, maybe at this point there will be a 'proper system'. Unlike Github and GitLab now...
- ai_fry_ur_brain 4mo ago[flagged]
- npodbielski 4mo agoWow people do not know that?
- gloflo 4mo agoClickbait titled "Microsoft doesn't want you to know this"
- ai_fry_ur_brain 4mo agoDid you watch it...
- gloflo 4mo agoNo, why would I invest precious time in a product that disrespects me? The title could be the "this".
- walrus01 4mo agoI don't know if that really solves your problem if the main trunk of development for gitlab is being run through several AI slop machines before they push it to what they call stable, then you download that (or use a debian, redhat package for gitlab which originated from it) and self host on your own machine the results of the AI slop fest.
- thfuran 4mo agoThere are other forges.
- hkpack 4mo agoSelf-host your git, take this as a sign. Forgejo is great.
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- thayne 4mo agoThere are a lot of downsides to self-hosting your git as well. Especially if you need to deal with high availability, scalability beyond a single server, and/or being open to the public Internet. I'm not saying you should never self-host your git server, but it's not for everyone.
- com 4mo agoThese days even without trying I get more nine than GitHub. Arguments against self hosting have to change as our SaaS overlords are decaying in front of our very eyes.
- phoronixrly 4mo agoGood thing Github suck at availability and scalability much more than your friendly local sysadmin...
- estimator7292 4mo ago[dead]
- shimman 4mo agoNo, these things are actually much easier to solve when you don't have to care for millions of users across every timezone and can just focus on <10,000 users that can easily be handled with a modest VPS setup. It's truly pathetic how developers today cede everything to cloud services. A $20 VPS (whatever gets you 4 gigs of ram) is likely enough to host all the business needs of 90% of SMBs across the US. Even easier today with things like Docker, Forgejo, and other great self hosting solutions. Why would a company care about opening up their codebase to the internet? These are problems you don't have to care about when you only want a small subset of solutions. Especially when the tradeoffs are drastically simpler.
- phillipcarter 4mo agoUsing Tangled for my stuff now, it's alpha, but it's a bit fun to host your own Knot and Spindle servers but still connect to a full social graph.
- akshitgaur2005 4mo agoIts VC funded too, so I wouldn't bet too much on it. Try out ngit or radicle, or codeberg if your code is open-source
- phillipcarter 4mo agoIt's also entirely OSS. Codeberg's nonprofit could crater in the near-term, too.
- abalashov 4mo agoYou'd be surprised how far you can get with self-hosted Gitea.
- abnercoimbre 4mo agoCan highly recommend it. Gitea issues, PRs and actions all work as expected.
- SV_BubbleTime 4mo agoMy bar for self-hosting something isn’t “these base standard feature works”, they had fucking better. I get self-hosting got for security, compliance, and retention reasons, but for almost everything else it seems questionable for any use I would consider normal.
- abalashov 4mo agoI self-host because I'm not training some model for free with our and our customers' proprietary code.
- abalashov 4mo agoAnd they have a suspiciously well-appointed MCP server.
- hiroto_lemon 4mo ago[dead]
- Ekaros 4mo agoI just look at the pricing and really start thinking about is it really multi hundred euro a year per seat product... Frankly as consumer those pricing levels just seems like distanced from reality.
- daemin 4mo agoI don't think hosting git is all that complicated, just install it on a server, create a repo, and push to it. What is complicated is having a convenient interface for managing the repository (users, groups, and hook-actions) and showing what the repository contains (commits, branches, tags). I remember back in the day the first part was handled adequately with software like gitosis and gitolite, which just used git repository to manage other git repositories on the system.
- deng 4mo agoOh well, they really do their best to alienate people as well. They just completely overhauled their UX, and after that update, people at my company were so confused, they couldn't even open new issues anymore, because everything was somehow renamed to "work items". I kid you not, literally two decades of UX people were used to, just thrown out the window, it's absolutely mind-boggling. The feedback to this is devastating: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/590689 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/590689