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.

blindbunny,

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

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

nakal,
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It looks like Gitea. Is it a fork?

poVoq,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

Softfork. Basically the version that runs on Codeberg.org

PropaGandalf,

And soon with ActivityPub integration? Pls?

poVoq,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

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

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

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