Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

I recently needed a simple self-hosted git web interface for about 3 people, and I only have a cheap 2GB RAM VPS that also runs other things. After looking at gitlab's requirements, I didn't even try.

Setting up the gitea docker container was so easy (https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-with-docker/) and it only takes like 160 MB of RAM plus it's super fast.

Then again, I only needed the more basic features, so I doubt that's gitlab's target audience anyway.

For the uninformed (like myself) Gitea is a fork of Gogs.

There's also gitbucket built in scala. The UI is much nicer than gitea.

https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/gitbucket/2017/01...

running it is simply java -jar gitbucket.war

I don't know, that UI looks a little too "mobile first" to me (for something I would only use on my computer).

EDIT: also, the colors seem quite dull from those screenshots

heh heh.. no real way to win. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/6057

Nothing wrong with responsive UI, just don't create something meant for phones and then just scale it up to a larger screen. Which is what bootstrap, material design etc. often end up looking like.