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I've really enjoyed Gitter as a better means of communications when I have questions that are small enough to not need their own issue, yet also not worth it to ask on SO or some other platform. It has been nice to be able to have a nice way to talk with other open-source collaborators or get quick clarification on a small repo-specific question. It's cool to see how it was put together. Thanks for open sourcing this…
Didn't knew gitlab built gitter.
Gitlab UI is truly horrid compared to Github. When I go to a repository page on Gitlab, the navigation and whitespace takes around 80% of my screen. On Github I can immediately see the directory structure. Also the colour scheme is bad IMO, everything is a light shade of grey, hard to quickly navigate the page as things look all the same while scrolling. Try using some darker shades and more contrast to make differen…
Anything specific about the UI you'd suggest changing? We'd love to hear your feedback so we can improve. Feel free to suggest improvements in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues
Didn't knew gitlab built gitter.
Asking users to run mongo, es, neo4j, and redis is a tall order. Mattermost just needs (AFAIK) a relational database. Also, less relevant but the Gitlab UI has far too much wasted whitespace. Like 85% of the page is navigation. I like open source competitors to incumbents but maybe just copy Github here - no one is gonna say anything.
Gitlab UI is the worst. I hope they do less features and just fix their god-awful UI for once!
Sorry to hear that you're displeased with our UI. We'd love to hear any specific feedback you might have. You can also open an issue in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues
We're always looking to improve
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Interesting (and rude). I think it's much better than any other group chat app. Especially for groups organised around code projects.
I was talking about GitLab, not Gitter. Yes it's rude, but I want to love GitLab - it's amazing. However I just can't bring myself over with this UI. It's just too bad and too unintuitive. Also slow.
I have to use GitLab for work and I find the UI much harder to use than GitHub, so I agree there. But, it's open source and we can all contribute, and in particular the best place to make your feelings know about the UI is constructively in the issue tracker.
Here's the main issue sparked from the last HN discussion about GitLab UI: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25752
Asking users to run mongo, es, neo4j, and redis is a tall order. Mattermost just needs (AFAIK) a relational database. Also, less relevant but the Gitlab UI has far too much wasted whitespace. Like 85% of the page is navigation. I like open source competitors to incumbents but maybe just copy Github here - no one is gonna say anything.
This is actually the first real project I've come across that uses neo4j - thank you for pointing that out. Given the requirements, I actually think this project looks rather clean between the docker-compose-file and the npm dependencies. I very much doubt it can compete with Mattermost or Rocket.chat for self-host for small organizations - but I'm really happy to see this thing open sourced! I much prefer it to be o…
Unfortunately our neo4j setup as it stands really doesn't scale. At an application-level we're built error-handling to gracefully handle the frequent outages we experience running it.
These are probably our fault, rather than a failing in the product, but I've wanted to replace the current neo4j-based suggestion algo with a new one that uses batching/clustering for a while. As soon as I get a chance, I would like to remove the dependency we have on neo4j.
As an aside, I badly miss the Github language statistics in gitlab repositories. This is one of the crucial info for any developer browsing through new repos and it is very counter-intuitive to have this info hidden from homepage.
See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/graphs/master/ch... I agree it's not very prominent. (GitLab Inc. developer)
Gitlab UI is truly horrid compared to Github. When I go to a repository page on Gitlab, the navigation and whitespace takes around 80% of my screen. On Github I can immediately see the directory structure. Also the colour scheme is bad IMO, everything is a light shade of grey, hard to quickly navigate the page as things look all the same while scrolling. Try using some darker shades and more contrast to make differen…
Gitlab UI is truly horrid compared to Github. When I go to a repository page on Gitlab, the navigation and whitespace takes around 80% of my screen. On Github I can immediately see the directory structure. Also the colour scheme is bad IMO, everything is a light shade of grey, hard to quickly navigate the page as things look all the same while scrolling. Try using some darker shades and more contrast to make differen…