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Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by phillmv »

frisco wrote: post #16

How are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!

>Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already.

No way. How many programmers are there in the first place? I bet you it's EDIT: Back of the envelope by other people put it between http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...

Under that perspective, one could say that Github has captured the attention of 4-8% of everyone capable of understanding the app.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by kneath »

frisco wrote: post #16

How are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!

Registered user accounts (meaning this does not include Organization accounts). We also purge spammers fairly often, so it should be our best guess as to real people who have registered.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by simonbrown »

ergo14 wrote: post #6
xorglorb wrote: post #3

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

Then use bitbucket, recently after they updated the website its actually really good service

Or RepositoryHosting.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by 0x12 »

xorglorb wrote: post #3

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

I suspect one of the reasons why github just hit a million users is that people use more than one account to get around that limitation.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by kneath »

0x12 wrote: post #24
xorglorb wrote: post #3

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

I suspect one of the reasons why github just hit a million users is that people use more than one account to get around that limitation.

What limitation does this get you around? Private repositories do cost more if you use more private repos, but creating another account doesn't get you anything. Look at our plans — it would actually cost more to use multiple accounts to publish many private repos.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by ElliotH »

ergo14 wrote: post #6
xorglorb wrote: post #3

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

Then use bitbucket, recently after they updated the website its actually really good service

BitBucket is also very nice for students, their deal gives you unlimited private repos among other things, far more generous than GitHub.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by guelo »

Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even heard of git.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographi...

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by swlkr »

guelo wrote: post #27

Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even h…

I was wondering this same thing! I wonder if someone can provide more recent data on how many programmers there are worldwide.

Re: GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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Post by 0x12 »

kneath wrote: post #25
0x12 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect one of the reasons why github just hit a million users is that people use more than one account to get around that limitation.

What limitation does this get you around? Private repositories do cost more if you use more private repos, but creating another account doesn't get you anything. Look at our plans — it would actually cost more to use multiple accounts to publish many private repos.

Apologies I was mixing up your plans with one of your competitors.
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