I'm starting to believe that Gitlab actually has marketing team dedicated to HN. Everytime there is a Gitlab HN post you would find random unrelated comments on why they prefer Gitlab over Github.
Briefly our (my team's) goal is to respond to every question about GitLab asked online and to stay transparent [2] about evrerything. This helps us to create better documentation and processes as well as it's easier to provide feedback into GitLab.
Regarding the user feedback and preferences on HN, everyone's comment is welcome and we really appreciate the words from the competitor's side.
It's really interesting that many people at GitLab joins the HN threads and you probably noticed our CEO's activity as well as many other GitLabbers.
[1] https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/marketing/community-ad... [2] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency
Nothing wrong with that of course though, just interesting to observe that connection.