This is awesome!
I used to start my repos on Gitlab in private mode before publishing them publicly on Github. A huge time saver here!
Announcing unlimited free private repos
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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#362I do not want to depend on any proprietary platform, it doesn't matter if it's friendly or not. I favor a distributed model as much as possible, that means for now having personal/projects classic websites, mirrored for instance on ZeroNet&c and source code exchanged as much as possible only P2P. It's not comfortable now but that's the sole possible free evolution path we have and only investing in it now can ease si…
Git is a Distributed Version Control System. Just add another remote...
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#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's fair to say that the personal accounts are irrelevant from a revenue perspective. Your assertion can only make sense if you also believe that a 12% paycut is irrelevant to your income.
Revenue != income. It's quite likely the profit margin on developer accounts is lower than the other types, and if this cuts the knees out from under the competition may well be cheaper than, say, paying for advertising.
>if this cuts the knees out from under the competition
All of Github's competitors (i.e. gitlab and bitbucket) already offer unlimited private repos. This is Github catching up.
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#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>In what world is 12.5% of revenue "irrelevant"?
Meh, just fire 12.5% of the staff. /s
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#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Github is a growing social network for developers But in a social network I am the product
depends on how the social network is monetized. There are no ads on Github. Unless github is selling user data to third parties, their monetization method is well known (paid enterprise features)
I feel like your entire comment could be ended with "...yet"
I'm sure the screws will tighten on it. Unless Microsoft's entire plan is to run it forever, giving blank checks to GitHub, as a way to endear developers to Microsoft.
Maybe.
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#366On the free plan gihub Pages still only works in public repos.
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#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I’m reading the revenue chart correctly, 12.5 percent of their revenue was approximately 11 million dollars in 2016. At Microsoft, who is even going to notice that... There’s surely a goodwill factor and wider strategic benefits here beyond the relatively small amount of revenue - these individuals enjoying the free private repos will in many cases likely be future candidates for customers for the enterprise offer…
Comparing 12.5% revenues to a pay cut is not misleading at all. Unless there is some reason to believe that making individual accounts free will somehow also reduce costs in a material way. Seems to me it will likely increase costs significantly as many more users will flock to create free private repos. In fact, it's more like giving you a 12% percent pay cut and then asking you to commute further to work.
> Unless there is some reason to believe that making individual accounts free will somehow also reduce costs in a material way
It's misleading because it ignores user acquisition & conversion. Freemium often means you "take a paycut" on option A in order to make even more money on option B.
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
Revenue != income. It's quite likely the profit margin on developer accounts is lower than the other types, and if this cuts the knees out from under the competition may well be cheaper than, say, paying for advertising.
>if this cuts the knees out from under the competition All of Github's competitors (i.e. gitlab and bitbucket) already offer unlimited private repos. This is Github catching up.
Exactly,while it is dramatic for github, it has to do this because of competitions.
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#369Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos
#370I do not want to depend on any proprietary platform, it doesn't matter if it's friendly or not. I favor a distributed model as much as possible, that means for now having personal/projects classic websites, mirrored for instance on ZeroNet&c and source code exchanged as much as possible only P2P. It's not comfortable now but that's the sole possible free evolution path we have and only investing in it now can ease si…
Git is a Distributed Version Control System. Just add another remote...
Of course, like the trend "hey if it does not work for you write down your code"...
On git only: what is another remote? A GitHub concurrent company? A personal dyndns from a single developer with a fable ADSL?
On GitHub: many use it's proprietary characteristics like PR, wikies, pages etc. That's not "portable" to any other remote if you do not count site-scraping...
No, we need to focus on distributed/decentralized solution now.
In the past at least we use tons of different hosting most of them offered by ISP that actually use hosted projects, universities that actually participate in many FOSS project so while not distributed we are decentralized on "friendly" systems. Not nearly all FOSS project is on a super-big-corp server. Without any viable alternative ready to use.