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GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users
- bprater 15y agoWell deserved. The team has consistently brought the kinds of functionality we need as developers since they launched the service. Kudos guys!
- frisco 15y agoHow are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!
- phillmv 15y ago>Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. No way. How many programmers are there in the first place? I bet you it's <100M, hell <50M. EDIT: Back of the envelope by other people put it between <12M to <24M http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developers-are-there-in-the-world http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer... Under that perspective, one could say that Github has captured the attention of 4-8% of everyone capable of understanding the app.
- nknight 15y agoAnd we all know the wildly varying calibre of people with "programmer" or "software engineer" type titles ("Source control? Which key is that?"). I wouldn't be too surprised if it was more like 10% of those capable...
- Retric 15y agoI think it depends on how you define programmer. If you are just looking at people who write scrips or excel macro's etc then it might be as high as: 6billion people * 1/3 have computers * 25% of computer users write scrips = 500 million people. Or you could limit it to people who have software developer or programmer etc as part of their job title and then it's probably below 20 million. PS: Personally, I rather prefer the most inclusive version which includes people who simply train their outlook to auto sort their mail etc. In the early days of computing there was little that separated users from programmers and I like to think we are heading back in that direction. If for no other reason than I like the idea of the maximum number of people learning how to work though problems logically.
- phillmv 15y agoFortunately, in this case we're clearly talking about people who understand what source control is and have a desire to use it ;).
- kneath 15y agoRegistered user accounts (meaning this does not include Organization accounts). We also purge spammers fairly often, so it should be our best guess as to real people who have registered.
- bambax 15y agoWhen was this reached? I setup an account a few hours ago and have to wonder if I am the millionth user?? ;-)
- technoweenie 15y agoIt wasn't you, we already contacted the 1 millionth user. Nice try though!
- pestaa 15y agoI'm very happy for their success, I really see GitHub as one of the most rapidly evolving services; my only wish is for BitBucket to receive the same care.
- xorglorb 15y agoThey provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.
- percent20 15y agoAnother new service on the scene, providing cheap unlimited git hosting repositories, is sourcehold.com specifically to help solve this problem. Full Disclosure: I am writing it, and it is still in beta.
- getsat 15y agoUnlimited? You may want to rethink your business model.
- jwallaceparker 15y agoHow much are you going to charge?
- percent20 15y agoWill be $4 a month and a 1gb limit and $1 p/g after that. I am still trying to figure out pricing for collaborators, but it won't be bad at all. The $4 will include 3 collaborators automatically.
- bitops 15y agoWell done GitHub! Keep up the good work.
- karlzt 15y agosuch a coincidence that this happens the day I created a Bitbucket account :)
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- guelo 15y agoWow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even heard of git. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographi...
- swlkr 15y agoI was wondering this same thing! I wonder if someone can provide more recent data on how many programmers there are worldwide.
- ddbeck 15y agoI imagine there's also a small, but non-trivial number of people on GitHub who wouldn't be readily identified as programmers. For example, I'm acquainted with a civil engineer that's on GitHub so he can contribute to software used with his astronomy hobby.
- dasil003 15y agoalso designers. That might be the biggest demographic of "non-programmers" even though the designers on github veer technical.
- shabble 15y agoDo you need an account to be able to report issues or watch projects? Interested bystanders and responsible bug-reporting OSS citizens may account for some of that. I wonder how many of those accounts have active repos of their own?
- Zev 15y agoI would wonder how many of those accounts have pushed to a repo recently, not just their own (in cases where people work for a company/on a project that has a GitHub organization).
- derwiki 15y ago".. and as a gift to you all, we'll be building side by side diffs!" (j/k -- congrats to the Github team, you can pry my account from my cold dead hands)
- prudhvis 15y agoGithub is the best place for Social Coding. Can't tell you how easy it is to manage a Repository being a Release Engineer with Github.
- thedjpetersen 15y agoGood work GitHub team! Using github as part of my workflow has greatly helped my efficiency. Their interface makes reviewing code and making comments much easier.
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- frabcus 15y agoIf anyone's interested in their growth curve, this scraper of their search engine using date ranges gives you figures for their number of users every month since they started. https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/github_users_each_year/ https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/github_users_each_year/
- jcborro 15y agoHow many users does the biggest public SVN repo have?
- zoul 15y agoI love GitHub and when our company recently migrated its code to Git, we were much interested in hosting the code on GitHub. I was surprised that they have a repository size limit, or more precisely I was surprised by how low the limit is. They have no hard quota, but they "don't recommend repository size over 1GB". Plans don't make a difference. We're a small four-people workshop, but our repos are easily several gigabytes in size because of the artworks, source photos and similar stuff. We would probably have squeezed under their limit, but did not want to live under the constant threat of growing out of it. So, I love GitHub, will continue using it for my public stuff, but I am surprised you can't easily host 10-15 GBs of private code even though you're willing to pay $50 a month for it.
- thomasfl 15y agoIf you don't like GitHubs pricing model, just download and install Gitorious on your own server. It's open source.
- dasil003 15y agoThis made me curious what my user number was. You can see it on your Account page source: https://skitch.com/e-dasil003/f5nx6/safari https://skitch.com/e-dasil003/f5nx6/safari Unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to explore user numbers like going to /users/5603 for example. That is actually the route for DELETEing your account, but it doesn't have a GET redirect or anything.
- bad_user 15y agoGitHub is basically the Facebook of software developers and I think it is eating LinkedIn's launch.