GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by fergie » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 9:45 AM UTC

zigzigzag wrote: post #480

fergie wrote: post #433

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SourceForge and GitHub feel different. SourceForge was always _really_ spammy from day one, GitHub has a far superior product. It seems logical that GitHub will eventually figure out how to make money, even if it is just by following the tried and trusted "project management system" model

SourceForge wasn't spammy from day one. I remember it back in the first year or so of its existence. It was actually really good, and an absolute revolution for the open source community as no such sites had existed prior to that. It immediately gained massive traction and was every bit as central to the open source/free software community as github is today.

I used it from 2000ish until around the time that apt-get became good. I can't ever remember a time when sourceforge didnt make me try to click on ads when attempting to download software.

It was certainly a valuable tool and definitely the GitHub of its time, but man- soooo spammy.

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by awhildy » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 3:20 PM UTC

sdesol wrote: post #552

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Are there specific UI improvements we can make to improve your experience of GitLab? Thanks for the feedback!

You have to remove the fixed header in my opinion. It consumes 100px and I really see no reason for having it fixed.

That is something we are aware of and are working on solving. Thanks!

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by compsciphd » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 4:30 PM UTC

The thing not mentioned is that Bloomberg is a Github Enterprise customer. They ran their own git server for a bit and then transitioned the whole company to github and the pull-request model (relatively quickly too)

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by anonbanker » Mon, Dec 26, 2016, 10:10 PM UTC

sumedh wrote: post #584

anonbanker wrote: post #583

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took reddit a while to replace digg as well. a few years, in fact.

People moved from digg to reddit in mass becase digg screwed up big time, as long as Reddit does not make any big screw ups, its pretty safe.

seems the spez /r/the_donald controversy has tripled voat's user base.