I have to recall why I paid instead of using bitbucket 5 years ago this which also have private repo free (for 5 accounts if I remember correctly). I think it is easier to use and more common even then.
Announcing unlimited free private repos
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#532And now that is a good move. I completely moved my repos to BitBucket due to that simple yet game-changing feature (and then to GitLab for not so simple ones).
I don't think I ever would have, if github had this. Not coming back though.
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>>GitHub is in the strange position of being both a successful enterprise product AND a social network. That's interesting to think about. Who knows, maybe GitHub will become the next LinkedIn for developers? Or for everyone? LinkedIn is nearly unusable these days, in my opinion.
StackOverflow already offers a higher-quality-than-LinkedIn career platform for developers.
The job search tool is so far ahead of all the other websites but no one lists anything on it in my area.
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#534This is a smart move. Gives developers who have small indy projects a reason to use Github rather than a competitor (I know I use gitlab precisely because it's free for my private one-off repos).
My move to Gitlab was basically "come for the free repos, stay for the rest of the amazing features". I will not be moving off it, and my new repos will keep being on Gitlab.
Thats why Github won't want people testing GitLab because feature wise Gitlab is a much better product and is getting better at a faster rate than github
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Yes. The free tier has the basic pull request functionality (called merge request). Some features (require approvals before PR merges from contributors, require approvers from certain groups) are limited to paid tiers on gitlab.com
Why, oh, why couldn't they have called it pull-requests. Changing the terminology makes me not want to use gitlab.
Because pull request makes less sense than merge request. If you are building a new product why would you copy the mistakes of the competitors.
Take a new dev who has never used gitlab or git. Merge request instantly makes sense but pull request does not.
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Very interesting article. It could be argued that the webapps/internet/browsers are now doing the same to the OS. For casual uses any OS is the same.
Yes, Microsoft realized that long ago. Gates and Balmer prolonged the inevitable through monopoly power, but Nadella has accepted the future and is "turning the aircraft carrier." It's amazing that Microsoft came back to life from being a zombie company. In hindsight, it was such a large zombie that it had sufficient time to change business models. Somehow Sears wasn't. There's a business school case study and tenure…
If by 'zombie company' you mean raking in massive amounts of money and growing spectacularly every year? [1]
MSFT has changed in some positive ways, but since Satya took over, growth has been actually flat-ish to negative overall until 2018 (a good year). Paradoxically, MSFT stock was flat during the Ballmer years when there was rock solid consistent growth.
The 'new MSFT' things is quite overrated in terms of what it really means for the company overall. We HN readers tend to considerably overvalue actions that might seem positive, such as things like open source contributions. MS VS Code is great, but it's not hugely material next to core business. Most of the world really does not care, and they are buying gadzooks worth of MSFT products and services. For better or worse.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global...
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#538A 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…
It is no surprise but sound business reason that private repos will be available for free. For some background, check this HN classic: "Commoditize your complements" ( https://www.gwern.net/Complement#2 )
The problem is - hosting repos, especially private ones, is not a 'complementary service' for Github. It's the core of their offer.
Edit: example - Google paying for Chrome, Android - this is 'complementary'. Google giving away free personal ads on search ... 'core'. MSFT giving away free dev tools, Bing search - complementary. Giving away 'Windows Home' for free ... 'core'.
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> 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.
> Your assertion can only make sense if you also believe that a 12% paycut is irrelevant to your income. You only see the short term. I was on Github during my university, all my projects were there, my team mate were on there too, it was pretty great. When my student account expired, I decided to move everything to Gitlab. I didn't want to move but I won't pay 7$ a month to host my old school projects and some perso…
+1 on that
I moved all my personal repos to Bitbucket a while ago, as it was free, and have referred them several paying customers from my clients.
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#540Bitbucket has had free private repos for the longest time. Any compelling reason to move small private projects to GitHub?