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

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    7 months ago

    I stopped since they put a broken cloudflare config in front of it that puts me in an infinite loop so I can’t ever log in

  • vivi@lemmy.mlOP
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    7 months ago

    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)

  • db2@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Gitlab when they successfully created artificial dependency and can then demand money for even the most basic of services:

    Sid Sijbrandij

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    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.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      If you want people to contribute to your project, Github is by far the best. If you’re off Github, it reduces your visibility by a lot.

      • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        You can host your project anywhere you want, setup mirroring to github and drop a link in its description. So you’ll have github visibility and won’t depend on github. Addiitional repo backup is a bonus.

  • adONis@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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?