[cormacrelf]

Maybe it’s better selfhosted, but GitLab is almost unbearably slow. I booted up a Gerrit instance to compare and simply rendering a MR page is maybe 10 seconds vs zero. GitHub is still 10x faster. GitLab manages to be almost that slow for cached pages, making you wait, then realise it’s outdated, and load again, totalling maybe 20 seconds just to “go back to the MR list”. Its awful.

Whatever it is you think you might like about GitLab in theory, it’s much worse when this is your reality. When it takes that long to render a single MR, you do not want to be creating more of them than you have to, and you certainly don’t want to make yourself and the rest of your team navigate between MRs to do code review.