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  • TrumpetX@programming.devtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlBest Alternatives to GitHub?
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    1 month ago

    Gitlab really pissed me off with their paid plans for work. We moved to GitHub, and while that’s not popular here, they offered everything we needed at nearly 1/4 the price.

    Gitlab kept saying $99/user per month, no way to have different “classes” of users at different paid plans. Just awful.

    I told them we were switching unless they came back with a fair offer. Ignored. Renewal time came up and I told them we weren’t renewing… Oh NOW they want to bargain and try to retain us??? F right off. Microsoft might be the devil, but they offer a good product for the price.

    I used to self host gitlab, but they kept putting things behind the pay wall. GG.

    Self hosting, Forgejo all the way!!

















  • Reinventing the wheel is exactly why we should use open source libraries.

    Expanding on other unintended outcome here: Different projects have different values. This takes no account for something like Spring vs Apache Commons IO. Or Rails vs nokogiri.

    Libraries will be incentivized into breaking apart to maximize revenue.

    This isn’t really unlike the unintended consequences of health insurance and how it leads to overpriced services with lots of indecipherable codes for service.

    It’s about how the system rewards (pays) for the service. I’m all for supporting open source, but the proposals in this thread are disturbingly anti open source.