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Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by odonnellryan on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:19AM (#11674557)
> GitHub has just increased our monthly bill to subsidise your organisation, instead of shouldering the financial burden themselves.

This is a really weird argument. They are a company supplying a service, why should they ever have to shoulder the bill?

I'd argue that if things stayed the same, this small company would subsidize you: if you have 100 accounts using 1 repo it's more likely you're using more resources than 1 account with even 1000 repos :)

Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by unfunco on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:35AM (#11675643)
My point is that larger companies are now be punished for a failed initial pricing model by GitHub. I prefer the new pricing model from a personal point of view, but for larger organisations it's now too expensive and I think many will relocate their repositories to BitBucket, or GitLab, or Gogs, or etcetera.

Edit: My parent post is being down voted and that's fine, my point was not made in anger, it was an observation that smaller companies are having their monthly costs decreased, and the larger companies are seeing an increase, for organisations created after today that's a fair premise, but for those organisations that have been using GitHub for years and have now seen their monthly costs increase, it's a slap in the face.

Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by uxp on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:54AM (#11675858)
> a failed initial pricing model by GitHub

It's been 8 years since they revealed their pricing model, which has remained mostly unchanged on the lower end and only adjusted on the high end to account for GitHub Enterprise and suggest people move to that instead of the gargantuan $3k/mo plans. I don't know many SaaS companies that don't tweak their pricing much more infrequently than that. Thoughtbot's Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast for the past few episodes has been consistently talking about A/B testing pricing models, prices changes and signup, conversion and churn, as a weekly adjustment on some of their services (FormKeep, Upcase, etc)

https://github.com/blog/22-the-pricing-plans

Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by unfunco on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:12AM (#11676040)
Failed might have been a strong and stupid word, it's worked for GitHub. The new model just doesn't work for our organisation, and that's not the fault of GitHub but it does cause us some headaches.
Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by jglovier on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:31PM (#11677909)
Sorry to hear this change is frustrating for your team. If the new model doesn't work for you, can stay on the old structure. We're not automatically migrating anyone, so you can stay on the old plan. If we ever do decide to phase out the legacy structure completely, you'll still have 12 months from that point before you have to move over. (We've updated the blog post to reflect that clarification, too)
Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by unfunco on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:48PM (#11678625)
Thank you!
Re:Introducing unlimited private repositories by vehementi on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:36AM (#11676238)
> punished

> subsidized

Come on. Those things are not happening.