Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by odo1242 on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:57AM (#49333097)

I think GitHub leans on this free repos thing a lot for getting new users though. Like I could see people just moving to GitLab

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by hakunin on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:59AM (#49333133)

…and encountering the same issues most likely.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by odo1242 on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:02PM (#49333169)

Fair, but the point is GitHub’s model is:

Free Users use GitHub => when a company needs source control => all their coders use GitHub => company buys expensive enterprise contract.

If there’s less of an advantage to using free GitHub then that funnel works less effectively.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by neko_ranger on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:33PM (#49335594)

Free private repos on github is relatively new, only introduced after a rise in popularity of gitlab (which has free private repos).

Seems like github is too popular for itself.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by klausa on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:40PM (#49349419)

I know you said "relatively", but it's been seven and a half years: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-01-08-pricing-changes/

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