GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by woodruffw on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:14PM (#13189595)

It's worth nothing that GitHub isn't just a pretty Git frontend anymore. It's also a de-facto CDN and host for projects (Homebrew, CocoaPods come to mind), as well as a blogging and demonstration platform (GitHub pages).

In these roles, GitHub is of tremendous value and not immediately replaceable.

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by jessaustin on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:07PM (#13190765)

It's my impression that they really don't want to be a CDN. One might suggest that as a service that could generate revenue if they charged for it, however none of the cheapskates using GitHub as a CDN would ever consider paying for a CDN...

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by woodruffw on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:50PM (#13190917)

I can't blame them (being GitHub). Bandwidth and storage can be expensive.

That being said, I think it's inaccurate to characterize the people using GitHub as a CDN uniformly as "cheapskates". Many are just open source developers, often of limited means, trying to expose their work to the largest audience possible.

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by pawadu on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:42AM (#13192160)

I disagree.

When you just start your project you may use github as your CDN and hope no one notices, but when you are as big as homebrew using someones elses resources like this is a pretty bad practice.

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