Even on this thread, you can count on one hand the number of commenters who actually say they pay to use the product. The trick is to use that noise to leverage yourself into markets where people actually pay money for things.
We are working to better educate our users on the value that our paid version can offer, but it is very important for us to be good stewards of the open source community that has grown around the project. You can read more about our pricing strategy and stewardship here: https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/#what-features-...
On the revenue side, Sid publicly shared an update recently: https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1156571842653478913?s=21
I have been watching you folks spam threads, over and over again, for years, with the same things: “we’re fixing performance!”, “making the UI better is a priority!”
The user complaints never change.
Instead of spamming threads with guerilla marketing, make your software better. What was cute when the company was four guys and a computer now just appears calculated and manipulative.
Support is non-existent, clunky CI infrastructure, barebones all over. They seem to just be good at reacting in public threads.