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"I'm leaving...but I don't really want to! Please fix your foundations and I'm super eager to come back"

Then fair enough my friend :-) This is Hacker news after all!

Yeah read about that one. I would like to avoid hosting our own code, but if Github proves to be too unreliable as well then indeed that will be our only option. But gitlab just had too frequent outages/slowdowns for me to feel comfortable staying. I don't expect 100% uptime, (as nothing does) but it's the frequency and consistency of outages that started to worry me.

Well that is the question of-course. But stability/speed/reliability issues have been frequent indeed. And from what I can gather GitHub has it's own set of issues, but availability & speed aren't one of them...hope that it proves true. The other aspect of course is that we're really excited to open source some of our stuff and GitHub just has the best community out there.

Yes git is decentralised...but if your entire build & docker image hosting hangs too it it does play an integral role in day-to-day coding. Especially if you need to pull some changes you made late at night on a different computer to continue work. I'm not trying to bash GitLab...if anything I was trying to write a homage. I'm genuinely sad to leave.

That sort of was the point I was trying to make...they have a lot of big picture "features" but their foundations are crumbling...sadly. Don't quite agree with you on Docker = prebuilt image. We do loads of cool stuff with Docker containers. We're microservice heaven here :-P

Because the idiot (i.e. ME!) had pushed on his home computer and wanted to pull his work on his office computer. Don't ask me why they're different ATM...work in progress.

I'm not disputing that...but like I mentioned in the post; I'm ruthless not spending time on things that aren't our core service. I don't host our own mail either, I pay for GSuite :-P.