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Github just hit 2 million users.
- jeremymcanally 14y agoIf you're logged in, you can go to http://github.com/home http://github.com/home to see it. We are super excited. :)
- bonzoesc 14y agoCongratulations!
- eddyweb 14y agoWondering how many are paid users
- trueneverland 14y agoAnd how many active accounts...
- dsirijus 14y agoAnd the definition of active accounts...
- GlennS 14y agoWell, at least one of those 2 million+ accounts is for my build server, who is not a particularly active committer, nor a paying customer. But for my main account, I'm quite happy to pay Github their not very many £s per month.
- cliftonk 14y agoCongrats on 2 million! We hit 1 million a few months ago and we had a great party.
- mrspeaker 14y agoI like how you can say "hosting over 3,514,881 repositories" because by the time the HTML has loaded it there would surely be at least one more ;)
- robin_reala 14y agoWell, that’s why they say ‘over’
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- dennisgorelik 14y agoI wonder why github's US traffic numbers go down? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/github.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/github.com/
- citricsquid 14y agobecause those analytics are (most likely) not accurate, github doesn't have the compete tracking installed.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoExact traffic numbers might be not accurate, but traffic trend in the course of full year at that traffic volume is generally pretty accurate.
- cobychapple 14y agoThose analytics bear very little resemblance to our actual traffic both in terms of volume and overall trend.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoYou are right, Quantcast shows different trend: http://www.quantcast.com/github.com http://www.quantcast.com/github.com
- ig1 14y agoCompete is often wildly off. Compare the different services that offer similar analytics and you'll see how often they disagree.
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- clobber 14y agoWhy do people still think compete, quantcast, alexa, etc are accurate when they don't have tracking pixels installed on the sites they're showing traffic for?
- vm 14y agoGithub, I love you. You have saved my company months of engineering time because of all the third-party libraries that we can easily find and use through your service. We're only a year old, so taking the time to build all those features from scratch would be a massive tax. And this is just one of the many, many benefits. Soon you'll have 3M users, then 5M, then 10M... who knows how big it'll get.
- sdoowpilihp 14y agoI second this. Even if the library is just an experiment by someone, has been dead for 6 months, and has a few bugs, it's still going to save our team at least a week and up to several months worth of development time. Time that as a startup is invaluable.
- atdt 14y agoUnless the library got renamed, in which case you'll get a 404 with no indication whatever that anything had ever existed at that URL.
- ergo14 14y agoYes, because you could not search for your libraries before github existed. I don't see any logic in your claim.
- dougws 14y agoGithub's project pages present a really nice, standardized, easy way to find out what a library does. I am always relieved when I find out that a 3rd-party python library I want to use is hosted on github, as it means I can very easily read the documentation, browse the source code, and examine outstanding issues.
- zizee 14y agoGitHub is great and all, but shouldn't the thanks be directed at the third party library authors?
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- kulkarnic 14y agoI am simply amazed that there are 2 million software developers creating projects that they can host on Github. For some reason, I still think of open software development as a rather indie movement. So much has changed just in the last few years :-)
- josephagoss 14y agoNot all accounts are used for open software. Lots of paid users are hosting private repos
- jballanc 14y agoTrue (my own company uses Github private repos for most of our work), but what's nice about that is that the barrier to transitioning a useful internal library into a reputation bolstering Open Source library is nearly zero.
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- richardburton 14y agoI feel incredibly lucky to have started learning to code with resources like Github, Stack Overflow and Railscasts. It has made the process so much easier. Thank you, Github.
- quattrofan 14y agoThat's great news for Github, and truly as a community its a fantastic place to share and find code. But recently I've really begun to question Git for version control, two recent experiences are really making me reconsider with its complexity outweighs its perceived usefullness. Its quite possible that for at least one of the projects I am involved in we will move back to SVN for the next version build.
- zalew 14y agotry mercurial - dvcs with svn's simplicity.
- technoweenie 14y agoJust curious, what were the experiences? Hell, send them to support@github.com if you don't want to reply publicly :)
- quattrofan 14y agoTwo projects now have had repeated problems with issues regressing and features being lost between builds. I had never considered it might be an issue with Git until someone else mentioned it to me. We need to do some proper investigation but at the moment under the gun to finish a release. When I have more details happy to share via support.
- briandoll 14y agoEvery git repository on GitHub can also be used with svn. Details: https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-subversion https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-su...
- Newky 14y agoDoes the ratio of users to repositories seem strange to anyone else? This to me looks like each user has around 1.5 repositories. This seems quite small? On average most accounts I've seen have far more than 1 and a half repositories.