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I completely agree. For me, GitLab is primarily a place where I dump my personal code. Having a monthly $5 subscription for that is acceptable - an annual $228 payment is not, especially because I don't even _need_ the premium features!

I consume maybe a few megabytes of disk space. Why do they want to get rid of me so badly? In the past I have highly recommended GitLab because they are actually really good, but stuff like this does make me rethink that.

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> I consume maybe a few megabytes of disk space. Why do they want to get rid of me so badly?

Isn't their max size announced a few days ago set to 5 Gigs? I also use it for a few personal projects that I want to make available to others and I also have a few megabytes. That's a very long way from 5 gigs.

There's other limits that he/you could be hitting and require an upgrade

> Having a monthly $5 subscription for that is acceptable - an annual $228 payment is not, especially because I don't even _need_ the premium features!

For my usage, a $5/month VPS running Gitea will suffice. If I have to pay more than $5/month for git hosting then I'll just do it myself.

But if you care about discovery and making it easier for others to contribute, selfhosting is not really an option.

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