User Friendly Comments and Web IDE

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Making Discussion Comments (notes) User Friendly
- Modifying Individual notes in issue and merge requests look like chat messages
- Showing Edit History of comments (notes)
Adding Upstream Fetch Button in Forks
- Enable fetching upstream in Fork Projects from the web IDE

Right Now GitLab Discussions are harder to read and not friendly to new comers, as the UI is a little bit unfriendly compared to GitHub and Gitea, which uses a chat like discussion UI which most users are familiar with. Another issue in Comments when a developer's comments was to be edited by maintainer, there should be a history of the changes, and only administrators and Owners should have permission to delete those histories
Forked projects in GitLab can't fetch upstream project if new commits were to be added in the parent project which can be a little bit tiring to new comers, or user who have used GitHub in the past

Commenting user avatar placed outside of comment area, and the comment area made chat message like area
Add a fetch upstream Button in forked project's Web IDE

Edited Jul 26, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖