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Github wants to price discriminate between serious users who can afford to pay more, and casual users. Projects with a high development budget (e.g. complex sof
by storborg 16y ago
Github wants to price discriminate between serious users who can afford to pay more, and casual users. Projects with a high development budget (e.g. complex software projects) don't necessarily use more disk space than someone's personal website, so disk space isn't a good way of price discriminating.
On the other hand, organizations with a high dev tool budget are probably more likely, on average, to have more private repos. So it's in Github's best interest to charge by repo count, until they figure out a better way of discriminating between customers.
- sunkencity 16y agoI'd like github to differentiate between private and public repos more, to make the private repo feel more secure. Now I have to look twice to make sure the repo is private. I would also like to have a way to say - this repo can NEVER be made public, and neither can forks.
- jules 16y agoCharging by users seems like the most obvious discriminator between casual and large budget, not number of repos.
- wwortiz 16y agoI for one would buy a micro plan if its only limit was 1 collaborator, but for now I will stick to bitbucket (kiln is free for 1 collaborator in case anyone didn't know through the student and startup edition).