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I'm paying for Github and I don't use any of the paid features. Why? Because I want their business to stay. The big difference is GH has a significantly better

by pmlnr 10y ago

I'm paying for Github and I don't use any of the paid features. Why? Because I want their business to stay. The big difference is GH has a significantly better idea to make money with: paying for progressive, useful enhancements. I don't think you can do that on Twitter; maybe you could have, once. Like showing images in your stream could have been a paid addon. I have no idea if it would have worked or not, but nowadays, if they would want to make money like this, it's probably a paid "pro" account, a badge, practically, because of they go full pay-only, they will lose too many sources of sell-able data. EDIT: read comment by mi100hael; apparently I need to follow news better, and I'm taking my praises back.

mi100hael 10y ago
> I'm paying for Github and I don't use any of the paid features. Why? Because I want their business to stay. lolwut. GitLab offers for free most of the stuff GitHub makes you pay for. And GitHub is run by a bunch of SJWs that have gone so far as to remove repos because a comment in the code used the word "retard." And despite being a platform for sharing source that hosts many prominent free software projects, the platform is 100% proprietary closed source. They offer absolutely nothing of value that can't be had better elsewhere.
- pmlnr 10y ago
  > so far as to remove repos because a comment in the code used the word "retard." o.O I've missed this, reading about it now, and I'm off to modify some subscription settings.