GitLab's Losses Nearly Doubled in 3 Years, Do You Want Your Project to Rely on This Company?
All this grass is 'free' until it's time to sell you as meat ("beef")
THE latest state of GitLab as a company had me curious. Is it recovering after several rounds of layoffs and attempts to deplatform supposedly 'inactive' projects? Hmmm...
So...
No, not really. Notice that the losses are growing over time. Any accountant can fluently read the above and say something isn't right. They must reduce spendings somehow, either by firing people or deplatforming projects. Do ever not rely on 'free' hosting from for-profit companies, especially when they sell proprietary software (not the 'teaser' edition, which they typically dub "Community Edition" despite it being developed by staff, not a genuine community).
Remember that GitLab had chosen Microsoft (Azure) and used that for hosting until Microsoft bought GitHub, positioning itself as a direct rival of GitLab. Microsoft didn't bother GitLab and in fact it gives 'free' hosting to some high-profile Free software projects only for marketing purposes (some correctly detect the motivations and turn that down). GitLab is a big pile of JavaScript, requiring browsers that do not render Web pages but execute 'pages' (bloated canvases).
GitLab is not "evil"; but there are better options out there. Most of them do not rely on shareholders and JavaScript. █