Sorry, but GitLab has never been blazing fast. The gitlab.com instance is notoriously slow — supposedly improved a lot over the past few years, but still feels pretty sluggish. My self-hosted instance isn’t much better.
In fact, a couple of open source maintainer friends looked into migrating to GitLab when GitHub was acquired by MS; they did not precisely because GitLab was too slow.
Sorry, but GitLab has never been blazing fast. The gitlab.com instance is notoriously slow — supposedly improved a lot over the past few years, but still feels pretty sluggish. My self-hosted instance isn’t much better.
In fact, a couple of open source maintainer friends looked into migrating to GitLab when GitHub was acquired by MS; they did not precisely because GitLab was too slow.