Yeah, we've been committed to improving performance and uptime on GitLab.com for over a year now, we've heard this feedback a lot and take it to heart. It's definitely been steadily improving, and we're working on getting downtime-less deploys as soon as possible.

You can see some of the issues tracked in our GitLab.com infrastructure issue tracker here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues (for security reasons not everything is visible to outside users)