We put a lot of thought in our most recent release to improve the UI/UX, so some of your problems with that may have been resolved since you last used GitLab.
As for performance, we've started treating speed as a priority, and we've been tracking progress in various issues:
As for performance, we've started treating speed as a priority, and we've been tracking progress in various issues:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19273#note_12...
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59
We'll keep improving over the next few months, lots of work still to do.