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Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions

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Post by renegade-otter » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 8:41 AM UTC

bilekas wrote: post #25

> GitHub stated that it has canceled the price increase after reviewing developer feedback. It added that it will take time to listen to customers and partners. I get the feeling they got the feedback that their runners are not as indispensable to developers as they thought and realized they would lose a significant amount of users. Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copil…

In the age of LLMs, "rewrite these actions to use XYZ instead" also makes this easier than ever. Not a one-shot solution, probably, but most likely not as challenging.

Microsoft thinks it has a moat by locking people in, but they ticked me off hard enough (finally) for me to switch my gaming Alienware rig to Mint. It starts faster, too.

Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions

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Post by renegade-otter » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 8:43 AM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #38

bilekas wrote: post #25

> GitHub stated that it has canceled the price increase after reviewing developer feedback. It added that it will take time to listen to customers and partners. I get the feeling they got the feedback that their runners are not as indispensable to developers as they thought and realized they would lose a significant amount of users. Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copil…

I wonder if Microsoft will ever get that asking users before making changes can help them avoid looking bad in public. Maybe half of all clients I work with use GitHub Actions for CI (the rest basically all use Jenkins), most of those using Actions use self-hosted runners for performance and security reasons, almost all of them reached out to me asking how difficult it would be to move away from GitHub Actions yet co…

For a small company, the things that MS is doing these days would be fatal. They can screw up time after time and just move on, with the executives getting bonuses for their Wharton School of Business genius.

That said, they are burning that capital really quickly.

Re: GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions

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Post by renegade-otter » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 8:45 AM UTC

grub5000 wrote: post #59

bilekas wrote: post #25

> GitHub stated that it has canceled the price increase after reviewing developer feedback. It added that it will take time to listen to customers and partners. I get the feeling they got the feedback that their runners are not as indispensable to developers as they thought and realized they would lose a significant amount of users. Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copil…

> Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copilot we might be onto something. You can just uninstall Copilot? It’s nowhere on my Surface Laptop 7 with W11.

Microsoft will remove something after an outcry and then will later get it back with no option to remove. This happens all the time. People have no attention spans these day as they move to the new outrage hashtag of the day, so this works.