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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by benatkin »

nafizh wrote: post #226
drewrv wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network. What other product exists with that kind of crossover? LinkedIn comes to mind, which was also aquired by Microsoft.

LinkedIn might be successful, but its ugliness and spammy nature is in stark contrast with Github.

It's currently in stark contrast with GitHub. I won't be at all surprised if I see in-your-face ads on GitHub in the near future. It's not like there isn't a precedent for it (hello, SourceForge).

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Post by laumars »

stickfigure wrote: post #113
laumars wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This genuinely seems like an accident judging by the authors Tweets: https://twitter.com/matthewhughes

So why don't they hide or pull the post down until tomorrow?

I’m guessing the post had already gone viral.

Wouldn’t it be great though if you could kill content from the internet by simply removing the source. Privacy concerns would probably become less of an issue.

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Post by [deleted] »

drewrv wrote: post #210
iambateman wrote: post #190

A lot of people are concerned about the “what if they make me the product since I’m no longer paying.” A few reasons I don’t think that will happen: - private, single contributor repos tend to be pretty small. it costs Github very little to service a single account. - Github is a growing social network for developers. Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and a…

> GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network. What other product exists with that kind of crossover? LinkedIn comes to mind, which was also aquired by Microsoft.

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Post by nickjj »

bg0 wrote: post #275
nickjj wrote: post #232

While I think this is a great move, don't forget that private repos also means no more free Travis CI. Gitlab CI however offers 2,000 build minutes a month with their integrated CI service. Even if your whole set up takes 10 minutes to build on CI, that's 200 builds a month which is plenty for an individual project that's on a private repo. In other words, I think Gitlab's free private repos + CI is still a better ch…

Can you link where you see this? I can't seem to find it

Not sure what you're requesting, but I'm guessing the details about Gitlab's free offerings?

It's on their pricing page at https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/.

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Post by GordonS »

Kadin wrote: post #252
paxys wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Azure DevOps is a lot more than just source control, so there isn't all that much overlap with what GitHub offers. I imagine the future will be GitHub for VCS, issues, project management and Azure for CI/CD, testing and deployment.

Except that doesn't put GitHub on par with GitLab. So they are basically kneecapping one product (GitHub) in order to not compete with another product (Azure), leaving them with two halfassed products, neither of which are as good as the competition (GitLab, which has built-in CI). They'd be better off killing one product or the other, rolling it into the remaining one, and at least having a single-brand offering tha…

> neither of which are as good as the competition

I'm afraid you're mistaken there - Azure DevOps combines Git (or TFVC, if you really must!) repos with CI, CD and scrum/kanban boards.

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Post by 0x0 »

nickjj wrote: post #232

While I think this is a great move, don't forget that private repos also means no more free Travis CI. Gitlab CI however offers 2,000 build minutes a month with their integrated CI service. Even if your whole set up takes 10 minutes to build on CI, that's 200 builds a month which is plenty for an individual project that's on a private repo. In other words, I think Gitlab's free private repos + CI is still a better ch…

Also, the best part about gitlab CI - it's super easy to install gitlab-runner on your own and enjoy unlimited build minutes, even on the free plan. Plus you get to set up your buildbot environment just the way you like - even with access to LAN-only resources in case you need them.

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Post by sqs »

beagle3 wrote: post #250
moritzplassnig wrote: post #240

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When GitHub's financials got leaked in 2016, GitHub's personal accounts accounted for 12.5% of their revenue. GitHub Enterprise was 50%, their organization (= business) accounts were the remaining 37.5% [1]. It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. [1] https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-bett... (disclaimer: I wrote the article but the data is by Bloom…

In what world is 12.5% of revenue "irrelevant"? The 37.5% business revenue is just 3 times as much (so almost as irrelevant), and Enterprise is only 4 times is much (again, almost as irrelevant). Unless .. all github revenue is irrelevant for Microsoft - which might be true, for all I know.

I bet it's much less than 12.5% now (since 2016). Also, individual user revenue is revenue that public investors value less than revenue from businesses, because there is perceived to be a much bigger overall market (and therefore more future potential growth) in selling to businesses rather than individuals. And growth is what matters for the stock price.

Source: I am the CEO of Sourcegraph and consider similar things.

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Post by siminuk »

bravura wrote: post #106

"Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece." So let's be clear here. If I have 10 private repos, I can have 30 collaborators? Or they must be the same three.

Hi! I work at GitHub.

Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators per repository, not including the owner.

So, in your example, if you have 10 private repos, you can have 30 collaborators, without counting you - the owner. (3 collaborators * 10 repos)

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Post by fareesh »

robinhood wrote: post #237
globetrotter33m wrote: post #231

It still asks me to setup a subscription plan with cc to create a new private repo. What am I missing? Or has the upgrade not rolled out to me yet?

The CEO just said that "Give it a couple hours. We had to announce a day early due to a press leak.". https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1082346814802518016

Works for me

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Post by [deleted] »

iambateman wrote: post #217
maxander wrote: post #207

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All true, but why mot data mine too, while they’re at it? If you’re not the customer you’re a product... but it doesn’t follow that, if you are the customer, you’re not also a product.

Sure. My point is that I expect them to be respectful, not avaricious. Microsoft's knows they ought not piss off 28 million developers.

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