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Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by marcinkuzminski »

mi100hael wrote: post #26
ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes. 0: https://gogs.io/ 1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

cgit is even faster https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/

Try out RhodeCode it focuses on Source Code Management with strong security and performance. Should be also a fast alternative.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by maxyme »

kcorbitt wrote: post #3

It looks like unlimited private repositories, Gitlab Pages and even some CI minutes (2000/month) will continue to be available in the free plan. Gitlab continues to provide such phenomenal value to free users that I struggle to find a reason to upgrade for my own projects. :) That said, if I were running a business the extra workflow management tools in the bronze plan ($4/user/mo) and CI minutes in the silver plan (…

Except for the fact that you cannot use gitlab.com for anything business related because it has abysmal performance and okay reliability. Basically they use gitlab.com to stress test gitlab.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by rob »

brianwawok wrote: post #18

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab.. You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month. They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged…

The user/username is really "admin", or do you mean they create a default account that's an administrator? (never used the self-hosted version.)

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by Sir_Substance »

brianwawok wrote: post #56
Sir_Substance wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand that this is a flaw, and indeed a billing-related flaw at that, and I agree it merits fixing and maybe even some refunds/discounts to make up the difference. But at the same time, you seem to be super-concerned about what is essentially a one-time overcharge of (apparently) between $4 and $48, and I feel like I would struggle to muster the emotion you seem to feel over that. If you're posting this at wor…

Not one time, its a yearly overcharge. So $4 per month for life for an admin account with an email address @example.com that does nothing (or $19 for EEP)

We've already established that you can delete or repurpose the account. If you don't do that after discovering this for the first time, I have to assume you're wallowing in victimhood for the fun of it.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by Sir_Substance »

brianwawok wrote: post #55
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only that but I'd be willing to bet the $48 that if an email is sent regarding what happened that they would adjust the bill and all would be well. It's a silly flaw but I don't think I'd rake them over the coals for it.

I sent an email. I was told I could use or delete that account. No offer was made to adjust a bill, which is rage inducing.

>No offer was made to adjust a bill, which is rage inducing.

Is it? Well, ok then. Let's never do business, captain shortfuse.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by koolba »

jonathonf wrote: post #60
koolba wrote: post #30

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I've never used it but as it appears to be made by the same guy that made password store[1] (i.e. "pass") then I've got a default high opinion of it. Will definitely be checking it out. [1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

And don't forget wireguard [1]. I'd argue that's even _more_ awesome. :) [1] https://www.wireguard.com/

Had I known I'd have listed that. Seriously this guy is amazing.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by christilut »

I've been using Gitlab free for all my personal projects and mostly I'm totally okay with this change. I was afraid of being forced to pay for some basic functionality in a year but honestly most bronze/silver features are for slightly bigger projects than personal.

Just one small thing: pretty much the only 2 features I use from the Bronze plan are Issue Weight (I can live without them) and Milestones. I would like to see Milestones in the Free plan because for me it is just a convenience to create more structure in my issues. I wouldn't pay for just that feature and the alternative is more labels which would have the same result but more messy.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by jazoom »

maxyme wrote: post #62
kcorbitt wrote: post #3

It looks like unlimited private repositories, Gitlab Pages and even some CI minutes (2000/month) will continue to be available in the free plan. Gitlab continues to provide such phenomenal value to free users that I struggle to find a reason to upgrade for my own projects. :) That said, if I were running a business the extra workflow management tools in the bronze plan ($4/user/mo) and CI minutes in the silver plan (…

Except for the fact that you cannot use gitlab.com for anything business related because it has abysmal performance and okay reliability. Basically they use gitlab.com to stress test gitlab.

This is my main issue. Otherwise, the service has been great.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by jazoom »

mydigitalself wrote: post #15
jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation ) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.

Question: why does it take about 5 seconds to load the list of projects when clicking on the dropdown arrow on the top left of the screen? It's even slower than loading the whole GitLab.com website, which includes a list of those projects.

I find this a frequent annoyance and often choose to go back and load the full projects page just to change project.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by jazoom »

dimitrieh wrote: post #11
problems wrote: post #8

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If you're looking for the hosted version, there's lots of complaints about GitLab.com's performance. Bitbucket is quite excellent and integrates well with hosted JIRA too - I'd say it's arguably a better option than GitHub in many cases. I've had good luck with self-hosted GitLab's performance in my small group, but I've heard tales of others who haven't, so try before you buy if you're doing that. The CI integration…

Hi, GitLab UX Designer here. I would like to add that GitLab has put tremendous efforts in optimizing for performance lately. These performance optimisations optimise GitLab instances big and small. These improvements were triggered by having literally millions of users and projects on GitLab.com which is our hosted solution. For self-hosted GitLab instances run on a smaller scale, there should not even be a chance o…

There's also the frequent downtime, often related to one NFS server, or something.
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