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Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

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160 points MattIPv4 | 3 comments | 20 Jun 23 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.653s | source
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MattIPv4 ◴[20 Jun 23 17:15 UTC] No.36407258[source]▶
Just got an email from GitLab about a group I'm part of that has more than five users. The docs linked says "For existing namespaces, this limit is being rolled out gradually. Impacted users are notified in GitLab.com at least 60 days before the limit is applied.", however upon checking the group in GitLab, we are greeted by a big red box stating "Your top-level group [group] is over the 5 user limit and has been placed in a read-only state."
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john_cogs ◴[20 Jun 23 18:00 UTC] No.36407960[source]▶
GitLab team member here.

The gradual roll out of this change started with a blog post[0] and included in-app notifications for the owners of impacted groups on GitLab.com.

If the group owner did not log in during the in-app notification period, they were then emailed (the email you received today) notifying that the group was impacted.

[0] - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier...

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1. alex3305 ◴[20 Jun 23 19:13 UTC] No.36409017[source]▶
> If the group owner did not log in during the in-app notification period, they were then emailed (the email you received today) notifying that the group was impacted.

I think there is a glitch in your mail or something else is going wrong. I'm currently not in any groups and still got an e-mail telling me that my top level group (starting with 5060) has reached the 5 members limit. Searching for the group also doesn't yield any results whatsoever.

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2. john_cogs ◴[20 Jun 23 19:22 UTC] No.36409148[source]▶
Thanks, we are investigating this and the above reports about this behavior.
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3. gorbachev ◴[24 Jun 23 10:43 UTC] No.36457434[source]▶
So was there a problem or not? That email referred to groups by ID, which is totally useless.