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

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1171·
    2 years ago

    I remember when gitlab.com was the most accessible alternative to GitHub out there, but it seems they’re only interested in internal enterprise usage now. Their main page was already completely unreadable to someone not versed in enterprise tech marketing lingo, and now this.

    Thankfully Gitea and Forgejo have gotten better in the meantime, with Codeberg as a flagship instance of the latter.

    • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
      571·
      2 years ago

      On a tangent, why are all of these companies pushing AI programming? This shit isn’t nearly as functional as they make it seem and all the beginners who try it are constantly asking questions about why their generated code doesn’t work

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        541·
        2 years ago

        We are in the hype cycle so everyone is going bananas and there’s money to be made prior to the trough of disillusionment.

        • Goku@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 years ago

          Haha so true.

          I tried to use chatgpt to convert a monstrosity of a SQL query to a sqlalchemy query and it failed horribly.

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        2 years ago

        I’m hyped about AI assisted programming and even agent driven projects (writing their own code, submitting pull requests etc) but I also agree that it seems just too early to actually put money behind it.

        Its just so marginal so far, the UI/HMI has too much friction still and the output without skilled programming assistance is too limited.

    • Anarch157a@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

      For my private repos, hosted on my home server, I moved from Gitlab to Forgejo (Git, artifacts and containers images) and Woodpecker for CI builds. Woodpecker is not as powerful and feature complete as Gitlab, but for simpler needs it gets the job done.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
    48·
    2 years 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.

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. - Wikipedia

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 years ago

      Maybe it’s time to start listing the enshittification phase of a project on Wikipedia or something.

  • adONis@lemmy.world
    441·
    2 years 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.

    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
      111·
      2 years ago

      The best part of the Gitlab UI is when it gets upgraded and you have to relearn how to find everything.

        • adONis@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          You mean GIMP, right?!

          Imho, Blender really deserves to be treated with more respect. They’re one of the few ones offering a great product for free. Sure, it might seem a bit overwhelming, but so are most of these 3D programs. It’s just a matter of getting used to… but GIMP, booy oh boy

          • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            About 10 years ago I decided I was going to pick up blender and learn it. No big deal, I used to be really good in radiant so I should be able to catch up. this shouldn’t be that strange. I’ll just pick up a YouTube video how to get started. Just click here click there go to this menu and select that.

            Huh, the menu’s not even there. I go start digging around oh they moved at this point revision. Okay fine. Now everything I look up needs to have that exact point revision. It started out fine I was able to find tutorials starting in the exact version that I needed, but then I started needing more specific tutorials working with non-manifold objects crap like that. Well lo and behold somebody hasn’t covered every point revision in blender for every problem I encountered. Trying to find a video on how to do a certain action or even what the action is called now is potluck.

            I couldn’t even buy a book or download a tutorial series from a previous version because even point releases at that time were night and day apart.

            On The other hand I won’t try to tell you that gimp isn’t a hot mess but it’s got maybe a hundred options 25 of which are the ones I really need to use on a regular basis, and although their locations change and the shapes of the icons the names of them in the menus they’re in don’t move around that much. Blender on the other hand, there’s just s*** all over the place.

            I appreciate that it might have gotten better at this point I don’t have the time anymore.

    • tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 years ago

      I last used it seriously like 7 or 8 years ago and it was fine. I put it on par with GitHub at the time. The ability to self host for free without too much trouble also really affected my position on it.

      I haven’t really enjoyed the few times I’ve had to use it in the last couple of years, though.

  • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    302·
    2 years ago

    I created a GitLab account long before they implemented this, but never used it. Went to post an issue related to self-hosted GitLab on their issue tracker, and it told me my account was banned. I wrote an email to support and they essentially said “an automated system identified your account as a bot and banned you during an account clean up some years ago to cut back on malicious users”. I informed them that this was not at all reasonable, as I’ve never even posted anything on any GitLab account, and that I would be advising my organization to never pay for any GitLab product or service unless legal writes up the contract terms, because I have no faith in them as a vendor.

    Seriously, fuck GitLab. And if anyone from that org wants to discuss this with me, they can pipe their email to /dev/null

  • jetster735180@lemmy.ca
    302·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • vivi@lemmy.mlOP
      172·
      2 years ago

      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

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    Can anyone else confirm this? As a long time user and champion of Gitlab, this is a deal-breaker for me.

  • liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    Like others, I had an account before this was implemented. I have a couple projects on there, also mirrored to self hosted gitea. Have had people refuse/unable to contribute to the gitlab project due to the kyc requirement, so I’m thinking I will migrate to codeberg soon.

  • vivi@lemmy.mlOP
    20·
    2 years 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)

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
    223·
    2 years 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?

  • db2@lemmy.world
    74·
    2 years ago

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

    Sid Sijbrandij

    Edit: that’s the owner of gitlab ffs