In just a few weeks, most of which was familiarising myself with Bubble, I was able to build a pretty polished responsive web app.

If you're interested in what you can build with Bubble, check it out - I'd love to get feedback.

And if you're so inclined, I'm on Product Hunt today too.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/troupe

What's wrong with the current mentions plugin and what's preventing you from writing a new one or improving the existing one with a PR?

I wouldn’t imagine that to be intentional, possibly upstream infrastructure is blocking somewhere.

Thanks, glad you've noticed the improvements. We've still got more to do, but it's been an important part of every release for a while now.

Hi, sorry you haven't noticed any improvements. We've been chipping away at performance for the last 6 months and have made some pretty noticeable improvements in various areas of the application.

For example, the average response time of an issue page has come down from 2.5s to 750ms over the last 6 months.

We still have a lot to do, but we're getting there.

One big thing that we would love to do is moving to a multithreaded application server https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592 That would save a ton of memory but last time we tried we got burned because the ecosystem wasn't ready.

750ms is still a very bad value.

We've been working quite a bit of our NFS storage topology and have recently introduced some remediation to prevent outages based on NFS availability. Previously an NFS failure would have pretty wide-reaching implications, now it's a lot more isolated.

We're also working on an entirely new storage architecture for scaling and are slowly rolling this out. You can see more here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

I knew you'd be working on something. I stick around because I love what you are building at GitLab.

We've been spending a lot of effort making GitLab.com more performant over the course of this year. We still have some ways to go, but every release includes performance enhancements based on performance data from GitLab.com.

We no longer see GitLab.com as a mechanism to stress test GitLab and we're certainly pushing hard to improve performance and availability.

Yip, GitLab has subgroups that allow you to organise projects like that, although it's not available for /user namespace, so you can create

groupa/subgroup/repo groupa/subgroup/subgroup/subgroup/etc/repo

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/group/subgroups/

This feature is available for free on GitLab.com and is available for free in self-hosted GitLab CE

Hi there, those features are all available for free for public projects, it's only for private projects where we limit some functionality.

From the pricing page:

> Public projects get all paid features and unlimited CI/CD for free.

I think this needs to be more obvious. ;) Perhaps the price tiers should be separated out into a Private Repo-only section?

Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.

Question: why does it take about 5 seconds to load the list of projects when clicking on the dropdown arrow on the top left of the screen? It's even slower than loading the whole GitLab.com website, which includes a list of those projects.

I find this a frequent annoyance and often choose to go back and load the full projects page just to change project.

I didn't know you there was a new UI. I just switched over. Definitely seems like an improvement. Good job everyone!

I am using the new navigation, love it.