User feedback from Hacker News
There recently was a post on Hacker News that sparked a conversation about GitLab's UI. Here are some of the points made in the comments:
Positive feedback
Even though Gitlab may lack in some UI elements, it's more than good enough and it doesn't hinder work. I'm at a shop that still uses the community edition too
Agreed. Gitlab's interface is better. Especially the issue board.
Mixed feedback
The Gitlab UI is /fine/, but the speed is what gets me
I have really like Gitlab's merge request system. Their experience is pretty straight forward and they fixed a lot of the scalability issues with the built-in wiki. The opening/home page of Github is still better though.
Negative feedback
99% of the value of github is the user interface, not the mere fact that it's a hosted git repository.
Their UI/UX is still nowhere comparable to GitHub's. GitHub is so much simpler to use that GitLab and everyone I talk to seems to have the same opinion. GitLab is still lagging far behind when it comes to user experience, it's just not easy to find stuff
For UI, I would take github over gitlab any day.
I'm using both Gitlab and Github for different projects, and I just can't stand Gitlab's interface. Informations are scattered all around the place and there's no distinctive way of finding the information you want. Plus it's slow as hell. Github's UI makes sense. I can find anything in the blink of an eye and it's blazing fast. The team I'm currently working with is completely fed up with Gitlab.
Keeping a GitLab tab open in a background tab consistently causes my CPU dedicate 15-25% of its cycles to Firefox. [...] This is all part of the the longstanding, "Yeah, we really need to work on our frontend story, especially for mobile."
Issues we're working on
- #23213 (moved) Frontend performance
- #24304 (closed) Evolving the GitLab Visual Personality
- #25386 (closed) Revising our project navigation order
- #23593 (closed) (meta) Organize and Standardize settings