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Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#132
The main drawback of a lot of Cloud based business model I have seen is that nobody think its fine to pay for leechers.

The per user pricing is pretty reasonable but only when you think of seeders (publishers/editors/pushers call them as you like).

For instance I would love to subscribe to a BI cloud suite that really fit my need, but I'm basically the sole query editor and I have potentially 200 private readers + some public OpenData. I simply just can't come to my boss and ask that we subscribe to this service on a 200 users basis while only one users will really have the use of the license...

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#133
post #118

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Bitbucket is terrible though, so what does it matter?

Can you clarify? Why is Bitbucket "terrible"?

He probably means in terms of general usability. This is the reason why I don't use bitbucket at all, and I'm happy to give some money to github in exchange for their service.

Bitbucket's issue tracker is such a pain to work with. I remember being redirected to a new page whenever I had to create a new tag. Then I'd loose the content of the issue I had started to write, something like that.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#134
post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitbucket is terrible though, so what does it matter?

Can you clarify? Why is Bitbucket "terrible"?

A lack of search across a repo is pretty annoying.

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/2874/ability-to-sea...

Integration with Jira is nice though.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#135
post #40

A small comparison: Team | Cost Before | Cost Now 1 repo, 5 users | $25 | $25 1 repo, 10 users | $25 | $70 11 repos, 5 users | $50 | $25 11 repos, 10 users | $50 | $70 5 repos, 50 users | $25 | $430 50 repos, 5 users | $100 | $25 50 repos, 50 users | $100 | $430 I'm not sure how common are organizations with few users and large number of repose - I guess software houses that keep old projects (for maintenance and fut…

But to me this makes sense - one naturally will have more repos than developers, and as it is costly to add a developer to your team, but adding a repo is a command line, then making cost a function of developers seems to align most software teams with githubs incentives.

Right - and the total cost of a developer is far more than $9/month.

The real place where it hurts is users who aren't paid employees.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#136
post #105

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Except that now GitHub is 9x more expensive than BitBucket (and for a team under 5 developers, GitHub is $25 vs. BitBucket's $0).

Well, 7x, but yes, GitHub is more expensive. $70 for 10 developers is still really cheap. Personally I prefer the GitHub interface and $60 is still within the range of even smaller companies.

It's a bigger difference, especially as BB is $200 for unlimited users and unlimited repos. For that money, you can get 25 users on GH. 25 users on BB is $25. So on average it is ~8x difference, which then grows beyond 25 collaborators.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#138
post #96

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Why? BitBucket is superior in every respect, plus importantly they give free private repos for every user. No price gouging like we're seeing with GitHub.

Oh, come on. It's OK to dislike this change, but "BitBucket is superior in every respect" and "price gouging" are far from objectively obvious.

BitBucket has branch level permission, but in Github its cryptic.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#139
post #35

Do outside collaborators count as paid users?

Hi alanfranzoni, Outside collaborators on public repositories of an organization are free. Only the ones invited to collaborate on private repositories are counted as paid users. Hope this helps!

Is there no distinction for "read-only collaborators"? We build software for many clients, they often request some (say 2 to 10) of their own users be added to the repository but only for viewing our work, not committing new code. If they are charged at the same rate as our own users the effective cost per repo for this model becomes $10-$50 per month!

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

#140

I'm sure a lot of people will be moving from Bitbucket to this, Bitbucket's plans were great for hundreds of repos, but Github's ecosystem is definitely preferable.

Not really, I personnaly see no point of moving our (dozens of) repos to github at the moment. It would cost us a lot more than $0, for no advantage that justifies paying a premium. I am not sure what you mean by ecosystem, but we don't really miss anything from github. Yes the UI is more polished but who cares when 99% of the interactions with the repos are done with git clients (in various flavors).
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