He presented the issue with gitlab very well. Setting up an entire new account is the major reason (besides time) I don't contribute to projects on other gitlab instances. For some reason Gitlab management didn't think it important at all (maybe even considered it a feature).

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Actually, Librewolf team set up recently a poll "should we move to Codeberg?". And this was one of the reasons for migrating.

P.S. other privacy/convenience issues with gitlab:

gitlab.com seems to require credit card information for new users signing up, which is not really great if people just want to report bugs.

gitlab.com uses Cloudflare, which for a few weeks locked out LibreWolf users from accessing gitlab.com in the past.

GitLab requires Javascript even to just look at issues, which is not the case for Codeberg

P.P.S. They did move their codebase to Codeberg as a result.

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Not true, I just tried to sign up:

Appears to be optional, if you don't want to use a phone number.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

From what I remember, they require a credit card info for people outside of US. Here's my sign up screen with Netherlands VPN:

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