If your IP (and possible your browser) looks “suspicious” or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.
Screenshot: https://i.ibb.co/XsfcfHf/gitlab.png
GitLab used to be awesome when it was the place to go after MS bought out GitHub. They had premium access for all public projects under a FOSS license and top-tier CI. Then as time went on, they began pulling support for various functions in a very Microsoftian EEE sort of way. First requiring credit cards fir new users to access the CI, then taking away the CI almost entirely except for a practically useless monthly allotment, then taking away the premium access for public FOSS licensed projects. If I were migrating today I would not have chosen GitLab, but it is where I settled after leaving GitHub and my projects have grown to depend on GitLab CI even if I’m now forced to run my own runners due to the extreme nerfs they’ve done to the hosted CI. I mirrored OpenRGB to Codeberg, but since the CI pipelines depend on GitLab I don’t see Codeberg becoming the main hub anytime soon unless they can execute GL CI configs. Sad to see how far GitLab has fallen though, it is unrecognizable from what it used to be as far as support for FOSS prohects goes, especially given how GitLab itself started as a FOSS project.
Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. - Wikipedia
Maybe it’s time to start listing the enshittification phase of a project on Wikipedia or something.
Maybe it’s just me, but I never liked GitLab in the first place. The UI is just awful to me. Searching through issues, before posting a new one, is just a pita.
Can anyone else confirm this? As a long time user and champion of Gitlab, this is a deal-breaker for me.
Discourse, Git* and more really need federated search.
It is already hard getting Contributors for projects, even more if you are on some random selfhosted server that nobody finds and everyone needs to create a new account for.
Cool!
I hate that projects name themselves “fed” as that word is permanently associated with, well, feds.
“Welcome to the Fediverse, we got pigs of all kinds”
Good idea
Gitea but integrated in fediverse
To add a few more details: After trying several times with different IPs and different browsers, I was able to register by providing only a mobile phone number once. Since that still requires personal information, this is still a very questionable process. (not to mention it took me a day to not be asked for a cred card)
They been doing this for years. Here is a GitLab forum post about it.
As a gitlab user myself, I prefer gitlab over anything else because of their CI/CD. The free compute units run instantly now, no more queues orwaiting. A couple years ago, my pipelines would timeout after 3 hours.
That post is only in regards to the CI feature. But today, even basic registration requires personal identification. You cannot even report bugs on open source projects without
No worries, gitlab is a trash Ruby on rails app anyway 😹
JK I do love gitlab, sad to see the corporate takeover. What features dont you get with the foss version? Can’t figure it out amongst the marketing cruft. Seems like it would be relatively easy to build another hosted gitlab provider.
So why does gulab need to kyc anyway? And if it’s a legal requirement, won’t GitHub do the same?
Is KYC a thing outside finance?
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/security/identity_verification.html
What the fuuuuu
Screenshot: https://removed/XsfcfHf/gitlab.png
For LW users after scumbags used image hosters to spread childprn:
I probably will move to other inctance eventually. Probably to lavander.
This is wild 💀
Gitlab always sketched me the fuck out.
Because it was usable software or because they’re devs and can’t spell for shit? What skeeved you out a decade ago that still persists now (i.e. ‘always’) ?
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Gitlab when they successfully created artificial dependency and can then demand money for even the most basic of services:
Edit: that’s the owner of gitlab ffs
