gitlab doesn't have the same appeal to me for browsing projects... at least not on the surface.
the amazing thing about github is that you can go to github.com without signing up and search a multitude of projects and their forks. that's awesome. it's a level playing field.
Is this not available to view signed out? https://gitlab.com/explore if not I think that's something Gitlab should make visible to anyone. But the problem here isn't that Gitlab lacks this it's that no one is using it to make the explore page interesting.
the amazing thing about github is that you can go to github.com without signing up and search a multitude of projects and their forks. that's awesome. it's a level playing field.