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GitHub adds Organizations
- siculars 16y agoThese guys are great. They keep innovating even while they are in the drivers seat in their field. Thats the way to do it. Kinda reminds me of how WoW evolved over time to have better guild features. Perhaps the engineering resources weren't available to implement them, but more likely they learned what their audience wanted from watching their audience actually use the system.
- heresy 16y agoFYI, WoW has a grand total of around 30 engineers working on the game doing development. The majority of headcount is support and ops (~4000).
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoI would gather that there are a huge number of Testers as well?
- endtime 16y agoA lot of testing is put on the actual users; WoW has "public test realms" that they use for betas.
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoInteresting! I guess the motivation to test comes from seeing what advantages you can wring out of upcoming changes, and/or ensuring opponents don't receive advantages over you.
- endtime 16y agoSome really competitive users do want to get used to new raid encounters, but a lot of users just do it because they are anxious to try out new content.
- rubyrescue 16y agobiggest question is whether there's a price point missing - $100 for lowest-priced organization support is pretty high.
- kyleslattery 16y agoI think a $50 plan would be perfect. It's hard to justify the $80 jump from the medium plan for a small company that doesn't need a lot of the features (teams and permissions, for example), but would like the convenience of allowing everyone to administer the organization. That being said, it looks like a great addition to the site, and I think charging extra is definitely warranted--I just wish there were a better priced plan to bridge the gap between $22 and $100.
- tomafro 16y agoThis is exactly how I feel. The new features look great; we'd be happy to pay extra for them. But with less than 10 developers, we're too small to make full use of them. $78 extra/month is too high a price for the benefit we'd gain.
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- intlect 16y agoSo true. A price point is definitely missing there. I'm thinking something in the $35-$40 range.
- grandalf 16y agoIt is very high, but fortunately this creates an incentive for other firms to enter the space with creative, competitive offerings. On the other hand, $1200 per year for any company that is making money is fairly minimal. Github isn't in the business of trying to compete with a $20/month slice with nightly s3 backups and ssh, which is the bargain basement way to do lots of private repos. So far github has been able to offer value beyond simple git hosting, so the question is whether it can do this for orgs.
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- d0m 16y agoYep, github price are pretty high. Even the most basic plan, which I use for my own purpose, kind of cost a lot. I think it's something like 12/month for a couple of meg and 3 repositories with 1 collaborator. I think it's a way to encourage open source.. while thinking that if you're a business, you can easily afford the 100$.
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- jcapote 16y ago$5 is a lot? edit: it's actually $7, but still
- compay 16y ago$12 / month gets you 10 repositories / 5 collaborators. I guess it's subjective but that seems pretty cheap to me. I'd rather pay and know that the service is being run as a viable business because that gives me confidence it's going to continue existing.
- jackowayed 16y agoThe Micro (smallest) plan is actually $7/month for 5 repos and 1 collaborator. It's not cheap given that you could host an infinite number of git repos with an infinite number of collaborators on any shared host, but that's not the point. GitHub is pretty. GitHub doesn't require you to ask for SSH keys to add someone as a collaborator. GitHub lets you comment on lines of commits. GitHub lets you host blogs/websites with GitHub pages. Etc. Everyone's always comparing GitHub's prices to inferior products. GitHub saves you time and effort, and since most developers are highly-paid, it doesn't need to save very much time to be well worth it. And if you do see it as too expensive, maybe you're not their target customer. If your time is only worth $10/hour, and GitHub only saves you 15 minutes per month, it's not worth it to you pay them $7/month. The solution isn't to complain about their prices though--it's to accept that it's not worth it and switch to one of those cheaper substitutes.
- d0m 16y ago
- xal 16y agoWe have been testing this feature for a few months now at Shopify and it seriously takes GitHub to the next level. Really amazing and kudos to the team.
- cmelbye 16y agoI see a lot of mentions about collaborator limits, so I though I'd mention something. GitHub does not limit private collaborators. The posted limits are soft limits, and they're there to protect themselves from users that simply seek to abuse the service to use it as a shared file host, for illegal activity, etc.
- kuahyeow 16y agoOut of interest, can anyone remember what the prices were for the Large, Mega and Giga plans ? I can think of a situation where a small start-up is on Medium, and switching up to the next level at $100 per month is looking quite dear. Would be good to have a comparison with the old prices. Edit: Found it via Google Cache: Large $50/mo Large 50 Private Repositories 25 Private Collaborators Unlimited public repositories Unlimited public collaborators Mega $100/mo 125 Private Repositories 60 Private Collaborators Unlimited public repositories Unlimited public collaborators Giga $200/mo 300 Private Repositories 100 Private Collaborators Unlimited public repositories Unlimited public collaborators
- jpcx01 16y agoLooks like they still have the large plan in the system, just not listed. https://github.com/signup/large https://github.com/signup/large
- kuahyeow 16y agoGreat to see Github being proactive http://support.github.com/discussions/accounts/717-i-need-a-plan-between-22month-and-100month http://support.github.com/discussions/accounts/717-i-need-a-...