I'm in the process of migrating my projects to GitLab myself, away from GitHub. It was a good excuse to consolidate projects and delete some stuff that is unlikely to be of use to me.
GitHub does seem a bit simpler to use in my mind. My needs are simple, though.
Maybe it's just my bubble, but from the projects I've been working on there last 5 years, most gitops is migrating to GitLab.
I do keep using GitHub for small personal projects though. The interface to create something very simple, it's just more straightforward on GitHub. But, for everything else - specially at work- it's GitLab.
Funnily enough a friend of mine and I migrated some of our projects over to GitLab right before this original story broke. It’s really unfortunate though that this will probably go through since GitHub was/is really the staple site for social programming and project management, something that GitLab is certainly lacking.
I started a new project recently, and put it on Gitlab instead of GitHub. I'm very pleased so far, and have been finding reasons to justify encouraging others to move projects there as well.
I don't really have a big problem with this, but in a weird coincidence, I just decided this morning to spin up a self-hosted instance of GitLab and migrate all of my GitHub and GitLab repositories to it.
Me too; I've moved my active projects to Gitlab quite a while ago and haven't looked back. I just prefer everything about the Gitlab user experience over GitHub.
I was still on the fence between staying on Github or moving to Gitlab.
All the bad experiences I'm reading in the comments helped me realize it's time to move to Gitlab.
Too bad my company still doesn't want to migrate (too many integrations with Github sadly), even considering all the downtimes in the past few months which have impacted us significantly.
Nice. I really like GitLab. Made the move after GitHub started focusing on social justice instead of technology (plus I was tired of the hypocrisy of them making money from OS while keeping all their sources close), and I don't regret it.
Speaking on behalf of myself and myself alone, I have published stuff that links to my personal github repos. So although I've already migrated those projects to Gitlab, like the OP said Github is still used as a mirror.
I imagine how hard it must be for organizations to do the same.
Huh, I find the opposite to be true. GitHub is a breeze to use and browse, while GitLab is a convoluted mess. Once GitHub made private repos free I dropped GitLab and never looked back. (Granted I'm speaking of general Git repo features, I personally have no use for CI at the moment).
I've been between github and gitlab lately, mostly because gitlab had private repos and I'm developing a new FOSS app that I want to release at a later point.
But recently I wanted to create a new simple public repo for a small task and gitlab just refused to work. Eventually there was some sort of ghost repo created that prevented me from using the path I wanted, but it wouldn't show up in my projects.
So to get on with my work I created the repo at github.
Sad because I was really invested in migrating from github.
That is awesome news. I have been using Gitlab for the last year. I switched over my personal projects and 3 organizations I was advicing from GitHub.
They won me with their data centers in Asia and Europe.
GitHub is extremely slow in Asia and they do not want to change.
Good bye GitLab.com, free private repos was the only reason I used it. UX is really terrible in comparison. Will be migrating all personal projects to GitHub, happy times!
My workflow is GitHub+CircleCI, so GitLab was never a big win for me; I just used it for the private repos.
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