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

      • thejevans@lemmy.ml
        12·
        11 months ago

        I would LOVE to switch to codeberg for work, but my work requires that all data be hosted in the US, so I recently pitched GitLab as an alternative to GitHub, even though it’s not perfect.

        • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
          134·
          11 months ago

          Wait. Wtf does it need to be US specifically? So the goverment has full access to the data or what?

            • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
              11·
              11 months ago

              Well, EU or some countries like Switzerland dont allow themselves access to the service.

          • peasntanks@lemmy.ml
            2·
            11 months ago

            Export controls or legal compliance, most likely. Export controls because the code may be a protected technology, or compliance because the company doesn’t have gdpr or some other legal framework.

        • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          In which case, get your code off the net and use Forgejo to get your own instance, same as codeberg. If hosting location is a real issue, bring it home.

          • thejevans@lemmy.ml
            4·
            11 months ago

            That’s eventually the plan, but I expect that process to take on the order of a year, unfortunately.

        • marty_relaxes@discuss.tchncs.de
          7·
          11 months ago

          Codeberg the community is very nice with strong focus on the right to privacy and free software, which I feel reflects itself especially in a lot of copylefted projects on the service.

          Codeberg the collaboration platform is in my epxerience by the simple fact of critical mass quite a bit less ‘collaborative’ for many projects. There’s a couple projects with tight communities, and a lot of single dev projects with maybe a drive-by PR.

          Codeberg the software runs on Gitea (/Forgejo) which is wonderful software - slim, simple enough to get everything done without being in the way.

          There’s efforts to open up the gitea/forgejo forges to federation, which would be a very neat way to fix the collaboration issue and is - in my view - the way forward for open, decentralized collaborative software creation. It’s still quite a ways off (especially from bring mature enough to be used day-to-day) but when it gets there platforms like codeberg will be the first to adopt it and to also benefit massively from it.

        • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I don’t use codeberg much, but I have my own instance of Forgejo so I’m using the same software. My experience is that it’s really nice. The feeling is one of having what you need and no bloat.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      25·
      11 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
        241·
        11 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.

      • evranch@lemmy.ca
        24·
        11 months ago

        Even just for reporting issues, anyone who is capable of identifying a bug is likely to have a GitHub account. Not so for Gitlab or others.

        Then you’ve got seamless integration with Vscode as a bonus, it’s more like why would you not use GitHub unless you have a specific problem with them.

        • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
          4·
          11 months ago

          I was asked to report bugs by people without github account several times, so you are wrong.

        • ALostInquirer@lemm.ee
          2·
          11 months ago

          Then you’ve got seamless integration with Vscode as a bonus, it’s more like why would you not use GitHub unless you have a specific problem with them.

          Does GitHub still only permit one account? I remember looking into it awhile back and not wanting to get things mixed up between personal/professional arrangements and the one account policy put me off.