Thanks Chris. It is a tricky balance not being too noisy (I understand the sentiment of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12502468 ) but I tried to add to the conversation by by sharing our thoughts about the project <=> repo dilemma.
Hope you can keep it up! :)
But the facts are such:
1) GitLab is a YCombinator incubated company.
2) GitLab and GitHub are direct competitors
3) It's almost always relevant to the discussion, in this case; "How could it be done differently, how /has/ it been done differently"
In this case I think it's fair to bring up the direct comparison of github and gitlab. The only thing I would say could improve the situation was having github representation on here too.
If this is how all marketing would always look like, I wouldn't hate it like I now do.