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It says you will be able to add a few collaborators. So I think it will be very similar in the end.
Except that you have to pay for GitHub.
Which I already was. Now I'm paying less, and getting more.
Introducing unlimited private repositories
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Are you guys going through the nonprofit or the academics pricing?
Their nonprofit accounts are designed for "nonacademic" orgs. If there's an account type that's applicable to university research (not just students) then I'd be thrilled.
Check the bottom of this page [0] and prepare to be thrilled.
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#353What's with all the negativity? This is really good pricing - all individuals now pay much less (a flat rate of $7), all small shops pay almost the same thing ($30 to $90 for 3 to 10 people). Both groups no longer need to think twice about creating repos, which has always been a huge pain that I've seen. I've even thought twice about microservices because the repo cost would be a pain. This will affect enterprises -…
> This will affect enterprises - but then they're either already on Github Enterprise or are used to per user pricing anyway my organization currently contains 15 github users. 2 of which are used by error reporting tools to open bugs (Sentry, Crashlytics), one of which is used by Jenkins, 3 of which are outside contractor for which github now will get the money multiple times as companies move to the same billing me…
There is the threshold effect to consider also.
Maintaining a gitlab instance is kind of ridiculous vs $300/yr.
On the other hand, its not exactly rocket surgery and $1300/yr would probably cover it.
So its not a theoretical issue in an isolated abstract sense but market position issue. The competition isn't the employee lunch fund but is actual competitors.
Aside from maintaining your own instance, I have no experience or contact with them but githost.io offers quite a bit for less than $100/month.
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#354This has almost quadrupled our monthly cost ($850 vs $2914). We have ~300 users which will have to be reduced massively to save costs - perhaps with non-engineers sharing accounts or having no access at all. I'm not sure if charging per user is really in the spirit of open collaboration that GitHub champions. I slo wonder if charging per user rather than per repo will also discourage the creation of open-source repos…
> This has almost quadrupled our monthly cost ($850 vs $2914)
Has it really? Existing orgs aren't being forced to change, and on top of that they say they will give at least 12 months notice if they decide to force existing orgs into new pricing.
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#355This has almost quadrupled our monthly cost ($850 vs $2914). We have ~300 users which will have to be reduced massively to save costs - perhaps with non-engineers sharing accounts or having no access at all. I'm not sure if charging per user is really in the spirit of open collaboration that GitHub champions. I slo wonder if charging per user rather than per repo will also discourage the creation of open-source repos…
You have 300 employees and an extra $6/mo/em is going to break you? How much do you spend on toilet paper? :)
Haha we probably spend a lot on toilet paper as we have ~5k employees (FTSE 100 company) but that isn't the point I was trying to make :-) it doesn't matter how big or rich you are - if costs for a thing increase by x3.5 it's probably going to have an impact. I'm no enterprise-lover and we spend tons of money on crap with annoys me but I'm not in a position to change that.
We are not a "technology company" (and unfortunately I'm not the CTO!) so we will have to report upwards that costs will be increasing x3.5. Their reaction will probably be to ask us to investigate alternatives.
It looks like smaller companies/startups will benefit much more from this change which is fair enough to charge the big boys more really.
I'm not asking anyone to get their violins out but it makes me a little sad that we may have to move away from GitHub. On the flip side, GitLab has been looking great lately!
Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories
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Wow, you actually just made me think of something that could have been a great change for GitHub. Rather than completely limiting private repos in their old pricing model, they could have limited "active" repos, and created an archive feature, where archived repos were not available via Git, but still existed as backups and in case you ever wanted to make them active again. I do, however, believe that the new, per-us…
You can still remove a repo and keep backups yourself. Allowing it through GH makes it very easy to exploit this by archiving/unarchiving repos constantly.
The problem for Github was that the best place to "keep backups yourself" was Bitbucket. I archived a number of inactive projects from Github to Bitbucket. But that gets tedious, so why not start them on Bitbucket in the first place?
Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories
#3571. Take a gazillion dollars in funding on an over-hyped valuation, 2. Go through significant organizational changes that end up with the departure of a co-founder (and more suits in the building). 3. Notice that a significant segment of your growth (VC-funded startups) are running out of money. 4. Switch to a user-based pricing to generate more revenue for investors, but spin it as a freebie "Hey! Look at the cool un…
Switch to a user-based pricing to generate more revenue for investors, but spin it as a freebie "Hey! Look at the cool unlimited shit! No, no! Don't pay attention to the fact you're gonna be charged 3 times as much as before for the same service".
Cynicism much? I don't know how your organization is structured, but for us, this will represent a price discount. Not by a huge margin now, but as the number of private repos we use will almost certainly grow faster than the number of users we have, this is definitely a better situation for us, now and in the future.
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#358> Over the next few days, we will automatically move all paid accounts, from Micro to Large, to the new plan. If you’re currently paying for one of those larger plans, look out for a prorated credit on your account.
Bravo, GitHub.
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Certainly appreciate your question around pricing for non-profits here - have you applied for non-profit status through GitHub? We do have discounts to support eligible non-profit organizations, and you can request the discount at https://github.com/nonprofit . Feel free to reach out to Support ( https://github.com/c ) if you have any further questions around this!
Out of interest, why do you require charities to have no religious affiliation at all? Perhaps there's some US tax or legal aspect to it? At at first glance from overseas, it seems oddly churlish and monoculturalist (dare I say "fearful of the prayerful") to disallow community groups and charities where actually yes their beliefs did prompt them to step out in service, and they are not ashamed of that. I can't imagin…
Excluding religious groups from special nonprofit deals is pretty normal in the US. For example, my employer does donation matching for non-religious nonprofits. You're reading a lot more into it than you probably should.
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#3601. Take a gazillion dollars in funding on an over-hyped valuation, 2. Go through significant organizational changes that end up with the departure of a co-founder (and more suits in the building). 3. Notice that a significant segment of your growth (VC-funded startups) are running out of money. 4. Switch to a user-based pricing to generate more revenue for investors, but spin it as a freebie "Hey! Look at the cool un…
> 3. Notice that a significant segment of your growth (VC-funded startups) are running out of money.
No comment on the rest of your post, but I doubt this part is true. I'm sure a lot of VC funded startups use GitHub, but there just aren't enough of them to be a "significant" part of the GH customer base.