Gitlab now requires phone number/credit card verification

Looks like gitlab now requires account verification for new accounts in addition to email. Either phone number or credit card.

This applies both to accounts created with a working email or by logging in using your github account. You can’t even verify your email until you go through step 1.

I don’t know when this started, but at least for the last month or two judging from these posts in the forums.

Fun fact: I don’t even want to host on gitlab, I just wanted to report bugs in some projects. So I’m locked out.

authed,

fuck them

buzz,
@buzz@lemmy.world avatar

But what are they supposed to do - they dont have Microsoft resources and can’t exchange your data for ai training

overshot,
@overshot@jlai.lu avatar

Gitea for life

PropaGandalf,

forgejo for life!

homesweethomeMrL,

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    bamboo,

    They’re talking about Gitlab, not Github

    homesweethomeMrL,

    Oops, my mistake.

    jajak98082,

    (((Gitlab)))

    vox, (edited )
    @vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

    isn’t the official gitlab instance primarily a paid platform? cc verification makes sense then.

    Denatured,

    What would you guys recommend for a service to use to verify phone numbers for platforms, on topic, such as gitlab? I know there is some sort of list of voip service providers that most of these platforms blacklist. Where do they get such lists from and how can one view such lists?

    Infiltrated_ad8271,
    @Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social avatar

    Time to delete my account, before it is considered "suspicious" and I can't even log in without verification.

    Pantherina,

    I know this sucks. But I imagine this is because of previous abuse by bots or something. Could be simply evil though.

    macattack,

    Experienced the same issue when I tried to sign up 2-3 months. Went down a rabbit hole and then just decided to not host w/ them.

    There is a workaround where you can create an account if it is on a different gitlab instance (ie: I was able to join git.joinfirefish.org w/o the CC info) but I don’t know how useful that is in the grand scheme of things.

    Veraxus,
    @Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

    I really, really like Gitlab... but this is a MAJOR problem and spectacularly short-sighted.

    beta_tester,

    Damn, that sucks

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