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After the Microsoft acquisition GH marketing and pricing put an immense amount of effort[1] into trying to kill secondary platforms that integrated into github
by munk-a 5mo ago
After the Microsoft acquisition GH marketing and pricing put an immense amount of effort[1] into trying to kill secondary platforms that integrated into github and move more corporate accounts fully on-platform. We recently dropped travis for github actions and dropped reviewable for github PRs (which are terrible).
There's a portion of this that is agentic driven and there's a portion of this that's just github making their own bed.
1. Arguably anticompetitive pricing like MSFT is used to doing with the office suite.
- foolswisdom 5mo agoIn other words, the set of github core services has expanded because you don't use third party tooling for some of those services anymore.
- munk-a 5mo agoFor us, yes - and likely for a lot of other users. I'm not certain who else has dealt with the headache of being migrated off their legacy pricing plan but it ends up pushing those internal offerings a lot harder than the old approach did so if they're seeing successful conversions it's likely they're seeing significantly more load from mature codebases with expensive CI/CD pipelines.
- blks 5mo agoThat sounds like their classic EEE