I’ve seen some comments about how “gitlab bad” or whatnot, why do people prefer Codeberg over GitLab?

  • teri@discuss.tchncs.de
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    gitlab.com is a for profit service/company. They have an open-source community edition of Gitlab which you can run on your own server. Codeberg is a non-profit association running the open-source software “forgejo” for you. At Codeberg you can become a member and then you can vote for important decisions and make proposals. People also care about ethics there. Nobody cares about profit. Codeberg runs on donations from members. I think some people feel more respected at Codeberg because the governing body of Codeberg is a subset of its users. If Gitlab cares about you, then probably because a bad user experience would be bad for business.

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      1 year ago

      I had bad experience with GitLab people, they were saying things that I already knew and was at their documentation, so I felt like losing time with them.

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          Microsoft? I mean GitLab employees, they were just linking me and showing me their CI/CD examples that I already knew… was a bit of waste of time the meeting I did with them…

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              User: “Hello microsoft tech support forum my computer catches fire every time I run mspaint”

              Microsoft tech support autoreply bot 3 nanoseconds later: “Here is a link on how to clear your temporary files. Locking thread.”