GitLab's UI is pretty terrible, even compared to the not-so-great-either BitBucket UI.
GitLab's UI/UX is regressive to the point that when you visit a repo, you have to click another link just to see the damn sourcecode. It's as though they ignored every advance in source-code UX post-Sourceforge.
The stacked global and per-repo sidebars are confusing in a way that baffled me for several minutes, as well. They need a serious rethink of their UI/UX.
IDK, you have the option of whether to show files vs readme on landing but I actually actually prefer landing on readme first as it gives me an idea of what it is I'm looking at before deciding to dig into the code or not.
The main issue with GitLab right now IMO is that it's so fucking slow at times -- ike seconds per page slow...
