So it will be free until the competition dies, and then it will be expensive?
Like... everything MSFT and GOOG have ever done?
Great.
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#102Very few companies can make me feel like part of their journey like Github (Cloudflare also) They understand their target audience more than most of the companies out there. When they are making moves such as this, they explain what was behind it. I find it authentic.
Speaking of, I just had a momentary panic because Backblaze’s hard disk report timeline is missing a link to the last update (from February) and I thought maybe they’d stopped doing them...
Who else is good at this? I’m somewhat fond of Digital Ocean’s docs.
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#103I've not been a big fan of GitHub historically, but the pace of innovation since the MS acquisition is really impressive. I wonder how much of that is MS influence vs just MS funding.
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#104Can you please prioritize stability of your SaaS offering for paying customers? Our dev team and infra gets impacted seemingly every week with github outages, and it especially seems to correlate with delivery of new features. Thanks!
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#105Well, this is amazing! I never would have thought the Microsoft acquisition would have these kinds of results! Congrats to Nat and the GitHub team (and by extension Microsoft) for making this possible! I wonder whether this is a result of market conditions, or whether GitHub sees this is a first-to-market play of some sort, or whether it's something else. I hate to be a cynic given how much good Microsoft + GitHub ha…
I feel like anyone who lived through the 90s could have expected "these kinds of results". Git is open source and widely supported, which doesn't benefit Microsoft. By causing GitHub-specific features to be an essential part of a "modern" or "industry standard" git workflow, they can capture more marketshare/attention, and cause alternatives to be sidelined. This requires removing all friction to entering the proprie…
Thank you, it summarises it pretty well.
MS is back pretty strong.
It's also to note they attacking on two fronts, the open source and startup folks (VS code, github, typescrip, azure) , and the enterprise with communication, productivity tools and cloud infra (Teams, Office 365, Azure)
Owned.
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#106Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Everyone at GitHub is really excited about this announcement, and I'm happy to answer any questions. We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don'…
Hey Nat, thank you so much for this! We're a small team from India and we love Github but were always conflicted due to the pricing.
The new flat price of $4/user seems perfect for us. I've already moved one private repo to our org account.
Thanks again ^_^
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#109Hmm, literally the only paid feature left on the Teams plan we're using is Draft PRs. I am worried that as it looks like I won't need to pay for this service, that I, my team and my code will become the product to monetize at some point in the future.
Elsewhere in the thread they say that their big customers earn them enough to keep the lights on.
I’m much happier with a sliding scale model than ad or spyware based models. The problem there is that my experiences have been that a lot of expensive scaling work that you might otherwise have deferred gets done for your biggest customers, and we don’t often get the revenue right to absorb that hit. More than once our biggest customers have ended up having the lowest margins, if you de-fuzz the math.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a great change! One request: I wish that SAML was not an enterprise feature. SAML ought be a basic security feature like 2FA—it's especially valuable for open source teams who might use a mixture of services, and an easily accessible and cheap SSO solution would go a long way in raising the security bar for all teams, not just open source teams.
I'd never heard of SAML before. Is it like a more complicated version of OAuth?
Basically, yes. Give me a choice between SAML and OIDC, and I'll choose OIDC every single time.