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Re:Incident with Github.com by sqren on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:01PM (#49337573)
They do not need to make any technical changes. They could make the change overnight: $1 per repo per month (or whatever). This would stop the aggressive growth that they clearly cannot handle anyway.

The question is: are they willing to compromise growth for QoS. So far the answer is a resounding: "no". They are deliberately sacrificing the experience of existing users to gain new ones.

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Re:Incident with Github.com by frollogaston on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:07PM (#49337652)
There are tons of existing free users, they'd be sacrificing those too. And yeah they don't want to sacrifice growth either, so the remaining is an engineering question.
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Re:Incident with Github.com by ksbd-pls-finish on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:30PM (#49337916)
No way I pay $1/repo/month. No way I pay $1/repo/year. I still host and maintain my old code on GitHub, but any free tier pricing update and I jump ship immediately.
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Re:Incident with Github.com by matkoniecz on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:04PM (#49457122)
I would migrate my 246 repositories before paying even a cent.
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