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Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by _the_inflator »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #29
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.

> Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D > Thank you Github / Microsoft! What a weird way to thank a company. I get it, but still.

Yep, but intented this way.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by jopsen »

cperciva wrote: post #41
saagarjha wrote: post #8

I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.

Never mind loss leader; github can probably pay for itself by providing internal analytics to Microsoft which they can use for qualifying hires.

If you want I suspect you can just go play with: https://blog.github.com/2017-01-19-github-data-ready-for-you...

I guess it only counts open source projects, but still that's a lot of data.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by frou_dh »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #12

I imagine this will harm BitBucket somewhat.

In my case, Bitbucket will lose someone who was just using it as a dumb git storage backend, and did not engage with the Atlassian products at all. I assume that they won't be particularly bothered to see the likes of me drop off.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by paxys »

ggcdn wrote: post #42

So now what benefits does a subscription offer for a casual developer? If the 3 collaborator limit isn't a problem, is there any reason to keep a subscription?

I imagine they'll eventually remove individual plans entirely. Microsoft probably doesn't care about the tiny revenue from random developers paying them and would rather focus on enterprise plans.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by pastor_elm »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #29
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.

> Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D > Thank you Github / Microsoft! What a weird way to thank a company. I get it, but still.

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

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by [deleted] »

TheRealWatson wrote: post #21
saagarjha wrote: post #8

I'm curious if GitHub is now a loss leader for Microsoft, or if personal subscriptions were a small portion of their revenue.

I have zero insight on this but I also don't know anyone in my circle who pays individually for Github... When they need that, they use Bitbucket. I know several people I worked for or did business with that paid for Organization accounts, from Team to Enterprise.

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Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by asdkhadsj »

I'll be curious to see how much Git-LFS is offered. I've been using Gitlab for private repos, but I need LFS as well.

Also, will be curious to see the pricing structure - if this changes anything. The sad thing about Github is I always liked it more than competition, and I wanted to pay, but the price felt a bit steep for my usage. Since private will now be free, I hope they have some type of $4/m price range for solo devs, slightly better than free.

Re: Announcing unlimited free private repos

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Post by ACow_Adonis »

From my own perspective,this results in me doing two things:

- cancelling my paid subscription: but in truth I was planning to do this anyway and moving to self-hosted in some way...I just wasnt getting relative value paying to just have private repositories for my own projects (I don't want contributors, but that doesn't mean I want my work to be public).

- but I will now as a result keep my repositories and activities on github. So this is a win for me: less work for now.

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