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    Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

    (docs.gitlab.com)
    160 points MattIPv4 | 11 comments | 20 Jun 23 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source | bottom
    1. sschueller ◴[20 Jun 23 17:30 UTC] No.36407473[source]▶
    If gitlab keeps up with this hostility even towards paying customer a fork will be incoming sooner than later.
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    2. mal10c ◴[20 Jun 23 17:34 UTC] No.36407527[source]▶
    There's always Gitea [1]. I've been using that for personal projects and it's perfect.

    [1]: https://docs.gitea.com/next/installation/comparison

    3. mschuster91 ◴[20 Jun 23 17:36 UTC] No.36407545[source]▶
    You can always run a GitLab CE instance on your own, takes less than five minutes to set up at any Docker hosting provider you want.
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    4. andrewstuart2 ◴[20 Jun 23 17:40 UTC] No.36407603[source]▶
    I've been hosting my own GitLab for nearly 10 years, and it's been amazing and has grown with my environment really, really well.
    5. LeSaucy ◴[20 Jun 23 17:46 UTC] No.36407702[source]▶
    These are limited to 10 active users are they not?
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    6. TheRealPomax ◴[20 Jun 23 17:49 UTC] No.36407768{3}[source]▶
    There are no limits when self-hosting.
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    7. mschuster91 ◴[20 Jun 23 17:50 UTC] No.36407780{3}[source]▶
    No. They're fine for at least 300 users (which is the case in an instance I run) and you can connect it with Keycloak and LDAP for SSO.

    You don't get SSO user-group mappings in CE, but heh, if you use Terraform that is easy enough to manage manually even at that size.

    8. eddythompson80 ◴[20 Jun 23 17:53 UTC] No.36407837[source]▶
    A fork of what? If you run your own instance you have control over most of those features and limits. You can’t fork a service because what you’re getting from a service is not just the code. It’s the cheaper economy of scale operational aspects of it. It’s much cheaper to pay a SaaS provider, than to have someone on payroll that manages an open alternative of that SaaS for you. The SaaS provider can then introduce arbitrary plans and limits all they want. Do you want to start another company that resells Gitlab hosting that competes with Gitlab.com?
    9. dogleash ◴[20 Jun 23 18:01 UTC] No.36407964[source]▶
    How much of their business is the self hosted option? I assume but don’t know that gitlab.com exists largely just to show off the product.
    10. __jonas ◴[20 Jun 23 18:08 UTC] No.36408078{4}[source]▶
    Last time I looked into Gitlab CE I decided not to go with it because there is no pull mirroring outside of their Premium offering, I would consider this a limit.

    https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pu...

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    11. TheRealPomax ◴[20 Jun 23 22:19 UTC] No.36411502{5}[source]▶
    Limits are not features. There are no limits on number of users, number of repos, etc. etc. However, you're fairly obviously not getting any of the features that are in the paid tiers of gitlab's own offering. It's open core[1], rather than just open source.

    [1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core...