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Github listens and lowers price for Organizations
- dhimes 16y agoI don't use Github yet, but they seem awesome.
- tomafro 16y agoThis is excellent news. We will upgrade as soon as we can. Well done github.
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- zavulon 16y agoStill far far from usable to us. Assembla offers free unlimited git/svn repos, and it works great.
- d0m 16y agoThanks for the idea of Assembla, I didn't know about it. At least, you pay for what you want.
- jackowayed 16y agoSo you're still paying a 2x premium to get organizations, but at least you can do it at a lower price point. Small plan: 10 private repos, 5 collaborators, $12 Bronze plan: 10 private repos, infinite collaborators, Organizations, $25. Similarly, the Medium is $22, and the Silver is $50, both for 20 private repos.
- fizx 16y agoFeatures cost money, news at 11.
- patio11 16y agoFeatures which by definition segment your customers into "for profit businesses" and "everybody else" should probably cost more than anybody here can stand charging. People who complain are beautiful snowflakes who are out of scope for the product.
- eru 16y agoI agree. One question: Isn't the "organization"-feature also used for open-source stuff that's not for profit? Or doesn't this cost?
- kyleslattery 16y agoYeah--organizations with only public repositories are completely free.
- technoweenie 16y ago1) We love and will continue to support open source. 2) It's part of the network effect that gets more people using the service.
- masklinn 16y agoJust as with personal plans, organizations with no need for private repos have a free plan available.
- ROFISH 16y agoAt that point you might as well use the "personal" accounts. For me, since there's just two of us on something that doesn't require that much disk space, we've been using a micro account for a year now. (I guess Github doesn't have space requirements either now too.) The true benefit of this Organization feature appears to be for managing large teams, thus their "premium" for infinitely large collaborators. You don't really need those features for five people.
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- jpcx01 16y agoInfinite collaborators is worth that small premium i think
- shabble 16y agoI looked into github for our company a while ago, but since we deal with quite a lot of consultancy work where we offer collaborator access to clients (for their own changes, issue tracking, etc), it was going to be prohibitively expensive to afford a plan which got everyone the necessary account. In contrast, having unlimited users, even with a fairly small set of repos, is a very valuable offering, and I might reconsider it in favour of our current redmine setup, which doesn't offer nearly as many useful features. At $25, which is only £16 or so, it's pretty much on-par with the VPS we're hosting our current repos on.
- fierarul 16y agoThey are still too expensive by limiting you on the number of private repositories and not on storage or something else (requests, etc). If you are a small business or a freelancer you have a lot of small projects each into a separate repository. So with each new customer you use up another private repository until you have to upgrade to the next plan. I won't use GitHub until it's either metered (like Amazon EC2/S3) or until they only charge for "active" repositories -- meaning repositories where I had commits or some other form of activity during the billable month.
- detst 16y agoI agree but charging based on repo count does seem to work for most people. If I'm switching to github for my private repos, I want to be able to put everything in there. Being limited to 10 or even 20 just doesn't cut it for me. I'd have to throw down $200 to get near what I want but my usage might not be greater than someone paying $25 or less.
- tomafro 16y agoIf one of your projects becomes dormant, you always have the option to move it off the site. If it becomes active again, it's easy to push the repository back up to github.
- jackowayed 16y agoYeah, I have several git repos that I don't need to work on now but could want in the future (and can't post publicly) in Dropbox for safe keeping. I deleted them from GitHub so I could stay under my Micro plan's limit. One of the great things about using git :)
- edanm 16y agoThat sounds like a lot of overhead that is best avoided. For me, half the point of these types of services is the "upload and stop worrying" mentality.
- ahoyhere 16y ago
- jpcx01 16y agoLove it! In the process of switching my startup over from unfuddle now. Thanks guys!