Announcing unlimited free private repos

Post by sytse » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:37 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #109

lettergram wrote: post #4

Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D Thank you Github / Microsoft! > Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the embargo lifted. This feature isn’t live yet, but Github will formally unveil it tomorrow. When that happens, we’ll update this post with a link to the official announcement. Also... kinda unfair to others.

thank you gitlab for providing market competition forcing github to consider this!

Post by iambateman » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

klinskyc wrote: post #39

While understandable, this is sad to see. The amount of interesting and useful code that is currently available due to GitHub defaulting to public will likely be seriously negatively impacted by this.

Post by gknoy » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

alliecat wrote: post #129

This makes me uncomfortable. Private subscriptions were a direct revenue stream for Github, and explained directly how they can afford the infrastructure that provides the service. Generally when previously paid stuff becomes free, it's because the paid service is no longer a product - it's now a tool to attract users. How will users be monetised now?

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

BoorishBears wrote: post #123

kreetx wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously? Can you elaborate?

Just by the nature of the comment, dropping such an inflammatory claim with 0 context or evidence, you can tell they were probably flagged with good reason.

Post by tex0 » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

jmuhlich wrote: post #91

stupidcar wrote: post #60

One of the best uses of GitHub is being able to search for some obscure framework method name or enum constant, and find examples of working code that uses it. This has saved my life many times when trying to figure out how to configure Java frameworks to interact with each other. When searching for this kind of code, you have to wade through an awful lot of repos containing half-baked personal projects, experiments,…

Honest question: how do you make github search work for you? It often fails to find stuff that I know exists in a given repo. Nothing fancy, even single-word full symbol names.