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Looks like gitlab now requires account verification for new accounts in addition to email. Either phone number or credit card.

This applies both to accounts created with a working email or by logging in using your github account. You can't even verify your email until you go through step 1.

I don't know when this started, but at least for the last month or two judging from these posts in the forums.

Fun fact: I don't even want to host on gitlab, I just wanted to report bugs in some projects. So I'm locked out.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd assume this will be a non issue once they implement ActivityPub. They can enable whatever account restrictions on their gitlab instance, but if I don't want to provide this information to report a bug, then I can use another instance or self host my own, without the account restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You really think they will add a full ActivityPub implementation? I highly doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For discussions probably. Not for repos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

From the Summary in the link:

The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's great news!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t even really see this as an issue now personally. I guess it’s the principle of the thing.