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Discussion on: Github vs Gitlab

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Adrian B.G.

Github is more like a social network.

a social network without basic communication systems like private messages, chat, boards and forums.

As the compassion goes, GitHub will try to balance the difference with Actions, but for now GitLab is a superior platform from most perspectives (it evens has pages

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rhymes

a social network without basic communication systems like private messages, chat, boards and forums.

it used to have private messaging, they removed it for the obvious reasons (and I guess to avoid spam and harassment). User interaction is designed around issues and PR and most maintainers are one email or tweet away.

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Adrian B.G.

Exactly, it is a place where we throw away code and do very few code practices and operations, but is not a "social" anything.