Announcing unlimited free private repos • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by sytse » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

I think it is great for users that private repos are now free up to three users. This is especially great if you're starting to program and don't want to feel ashamed of your code but don't have a paid account.

I like to think that increased competition from us (GitLab) contributed to this change, we recently passed 10m repositories on GitLab.com

At GitLab we think that repositories will become a commodity and we're focussing on making a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle.

I think Microsoft will try to generate revenue with people using Azure more instead of paying for repos.

Also see our blog post https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/07/github-offering-free-pri...

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by niij » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

vortico wrote: post #80

So what commercial service will GitHub offer to monetize at all? Ads? Data collection? I don't see a reason for anyone to pay for GitHub now.

There's enterprises and teams paying. This announcement is only for individual plans.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by drakenot » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

bravura wrote: post #106

"Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece." So let's be clear here. If I have 10 private repos, I can have 30 collaborators? Or they must be the same three.

I had assumed it was 3 collaborators per repo.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by dx87 » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

itsbits wrote: post #100

I don't understand. I can see it was published 2 days ago but author says it he mistakenly published 1 day before announcement. So Announcement should have happened if it's for real?..Is this for real ?

The author accidentally scheduled it to be published on the 5th instead of the 8th, and wordpress automatically publishes things if the date they are scheduled to be published is in the past.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by ar_lan » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

Hm... not working for me :(

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by whoisjuan » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

itsbits wrote: post #100

I don't understand. I can see it was published 2 days ago but author says it he mistakenly published 1 day before announcement. So Announcement should have happened if it's for real?..Is this for real ?

That's probably the date it was saved / authored.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by whoisjuan » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:28 PM UTC

pyrrhotech wrote: post #111

I guess goodbye Gitlab. Only reason I used it was free private repos.

Same here.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by Semaphor » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:29 PM UTC

writepub wrote: post #5

Sure, theNextWeb had a "scheduling error", and this has nothing to do with being the first to put this news out.

It's TNW, the Sun or BILD of tech news. Expected behavior.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by crawfordcomeaux » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:29 PM UTC

sjcsjc wrote: post #99

pastor_elm wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't thank for profit companies. They should thank me.

Ideally, both parties act out of self-interest and both benefit. Thanks, while nice, are not required of either side.

In this day and age, I dare say both sides of any exchange could benefit from cultivating sincere gratitude for the non-monetary contributions resulting from the exchange.

Thankless business is killing us culturally.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by DataJunkie » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

WOOHOO!