GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API

Post by fennecfoxen » Mon, May 22, 2017, 2:13 PM UTC

avaer wrote: post #19

Hm, I like Github but I don't like this. This is a great move, but we already have a code hosting monoculture, and this subtly piggy-backs on it towards lock-in for tooling. Github knows orgs have inertia. Sorry for the slippery slopeism. I'm just imagining a future where shipping an app without a middleman moves to inconvenient, then annoying, then difficult, then impossible. Because this is exactly how we lost the…

Post by valuearb » Mon, May 22, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

LeanderK wrote: post #15

23david wrote: post #8

"Once your revenue reaches a minimum of $500 USD for the month, you'll receive an electronic payment from GitHub for 75% of the sales price." So it looks like Github takes a 25% fee. I thought maybe they would do something more innovative regarding the fee structure, or maybe have a lower intro fee like 15%. But here is seems pretty much on par with the 30% of the Heroku marketplace.

Wow, i think 25% is more than enough, they don't have costs that justify 25%. It's just their monopoly that allows them to charge that much.

Post by giaour » Mon, May 22, 2017, 2:24 PM UTC

hashkb wrote: post #66

Entangled wrote: post #39

How about communities, forums, boards? When I see an interesting project I'd like to talk to the developer without cluttering the Issues section. It could be the entry point of every repo, moderated by the owner of course (something like php docs where people can post interesting stuff related to the page at the end). And it would make Github more social.

Why do you think you'd be cluttering the issues section? I wouldn't let that (your) perception stop you. Just open the issue if you have something to say.

Post by octalmage » Mon, May 22, 2017, 2:31 PM UTC

Entangled wrote: post #39

How about communities, forums, boards? When I see an interesting project I'd like to talk to the developer without cluttering the Issues section. It could be the entry point of every repo, moderated by the owner of course (something like php docs where people can post interesting stuff related to the page at the end). And it would make Github more social.

Post by heartsucker » Mon, May 22, 2017, 2:35 PM UTC

giaour wrote: post #75

hashkb wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think you'd be cluttering the issues section? I wouldn't let that (your) perception stop you. Just open the issue if you have something to say.

Please don't. Issues are for bug reports and are not a support forum. If the repo maintainer asks in the README that usage questions should first be asked on Gitter, Slack, or Stack Overflow, please respect that request!