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.

beta_tester,

Damn, that sucks

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

bamboo,

I’d assume this will be a non issue once they implement ActivityPub. They can enable whatever account restrictions on their gitlab instance, but if I don’t want to provide this information to report a bug, then I can use another instance or self host my own, without the account restrictions.

ipkpjersi,

You really think they will add a full ActivityPub implementation? I highly doubt it.

JackbyDev,

For discussions probably. Not for repos.

bamboo,

From the Summary in the link:

The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network

AppearanceBoring9229,

That’s great news!

Sneptaur,
@Sneptaur@pawb.social avatar

I don’t even really see this as an issue now personally. I guess it’s the principle of the thing.

kevincox,
@kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

This really sucks for bug reporting. I don’t mind this at all for hosting as that cost notable resources (especially their free CI tier) and they can set their own terms, but I want people to be able to report bugs without any trouble. (Although if spam is an issue maybe projects could opt-in to requiring this verification to report bugs).

A work-around is maybe the service desk feature allowing reporting bugs via email but this has issues for proper collaboration:

  1. The reporter’s email is shared.
  2. The issue is private by default.
  3. Can’t collaborate on an existing issue.

Maybe I’ll just go back to mailing lists… Or GitHub has gotten better recently. But GitLab’s CI is so much better.

TauZero,

I want people to be able to report bugs without any trouble.

Thank you for being aware! I’ve experienced this on github.com. I’ve tried to submit issues several times to open source projects, complete with proposed code to solve a bug, but github shadowbans my account 6 hours after creating it (because I use a VPN? a third-party email provider? do not provide a phone number? who knows). I can see the issue and pull request when logged in, but they only see a 404 on their project page even if I give them a direct link. I ended up sending them a screenshot of the issue page just to convince them this was even possible. Sad to hear gitlab does it even worse now by making phone mandatory.

Bipta,

Kbin uses Gitlab so it's too bad.

ernest, (edited )
@ernest@kbin.social avatar

Not really. The official repository (with issue management) is located on Codeberg. GitHub serves as a mirror in case of any issues with the primary service.

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

roguetrick,

Well what would you know about it, ernest.

nix,
@nix@merv.news avatar

Hopefully the move to codeberg.org

homesweethomeMrL,

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    bamboo,

    They’re talking about Gitlab, not Github

    homesweethomeMrL,

    Oops, my mistake.

    overshot,
    @overshot@jlai.lu avatar

    Gitea for life

    PropaGandalf,
    @PropaGandalf@lemmy.world avatar

    forgejo for life!

    wintermute,

    Glad I switched to Forgejo some time ago, never looked back : )

    nakal,
    @nakal@kbin.social avatar

    It looks like Gitea. Is it a fork?

    poVoq,
    @poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

    Softfork. Basically the version that runs on Codeberg.org

    PropaGandalf, (edited )
    @PropaGandalf@lemmy.world avatar

    And soon with ActivityPub integration? Pls?

    poVoq,
    @poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

    Work in progress, but it’s taking longer than I expected.

    intrepid,

    The forgefed spec itself is a work-in-progress. Not yet ready for a proper implementation.

    blindbunny,

    I was asking like less then a month ago what’s wrong with gitlab when Firefox switched to GitHub, now I know.

    vox, (edited )
    @vox@sopuli.xyz avatar
    1. firefox were using self-hosted mercurial + git with sync
    2. they just dropped mercurial, they’re still not on github
      only misc. libraries and the android frontend are on github, and firefox/mozilla has never used gitlab
    Veraxus,
    @Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

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

    manokox400,

    Looks like gitlab is pozzed now. (((They))) are at it again.

    LWD, (edited )

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    ada,
    @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    The three brackets are a nazi dog whistle.

    Jordan_U,

    For anyone unfamiliar and wanting more background, and an explanation of why you may see Jewish people add ((( ))) around their own names on social media,

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses

    (I agree 100% with the person I am replying to, and I’m sure they know all of this already)

    ndsvw,
    @ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

    Have only my “private” repos hosted there… Maybe, it’s time to host a git server locally…

    intrepid,

    Get one of those cheap thin-client or micro-ATK type desktop, install as a server and move your online services there. Too bad this isn’t that popular yet.

    GrappleHat,
    @GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar

    Why GitLab!?

    tarneo,
    @tarneo@lemmy.ml avatar

    Because it’s a decent competitor to the GitHub monopoly. It also has a few unique features when compared to it. Just guessing why OP uses it though (many people do)

    GrappleHat,
    @GrappleHat@lemmy.ml avatar

    Sorry, I meant “GitLab, why’d you do that!?”

    (I’m a GitLab user myself)

    tarneo,
    @tarneo@lemmy.ml avatar

    Oh right

    DroneRights,

    Oh, well then you forgot your comma

    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.

    Pantherina,

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

    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.

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