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Just out of curiosity, did anyone reduce or end a paid plan with GitHub over this controversy?

nilved 13y ago
I did move to a self-hosted git server (http://git.devlinzed.com http://git.devlinzed.com) for a number of reasons. This is one, but the server: costs less to run than the smallest paid GitHub account; supports unlimited private repositories at sizes up to 20GB; has never ever went down; is considerably faster (due to geography and SSD); and doesn't allow GitHub to harvest information about who (including myself) is using my code. Realistically, whether you're offended by GitHub's sexism or data collection policies or not, it doesn't make any sense to use them strictly from a pragmatic cost-to-benefit perspective. They simply charge far too much for far too little.
- yuhong 13y ago
  I wonder if the fact that there are no ads on the GitHub site is part of the problem.
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- primitivesuave 13y ago
  I think one big redeeming factor for GitHub is the extensive and robust API. It's very easy to hack together a custom version controlled app or system using GitHub as the backend.
  - nilved 13y ago
    It's true that GitHub has a great API, but when you run your own server and have access to the running software and file system you get the best API for working on git repos there is: git. Or perhaps libgit2 and your favourite language's bindings. Subjectively, I haven't found GitHub's API to be great to work with, but this is because they use OAuth and OAuth is just needlessly complicated and inconvenient.
qeorge 13y ago
Actually, we just started a paid plan with them. We had been considering the move to GitHub, but wanted to see how this scenario played out before doing so. The issues Julie-Ann faced are important to me personally and to my company, and we couldn't support an organization that allowed such behavior to remain unchecked. I was impressed by GitHub's response in this case. A founder being forced out* of the company s/he founded, especially one as white hot as GitHub, is not a decision made lightly. It signaled to me that the issue had been taken seriously, albeit too late. But I am comfortable supporting them going forward. *That Mr. Preston-Warner was forced out is my own between-the-lines reading of his resignation once he lost support of the board.
zrail 13y ago
Yes, I ended a paid plan and I'm in the process of moving completely to my own hosting for most of my personal projects. I wrote up a little blog post about it here: https://www.petekeen.net/self-hosted-git-server https://www.petekeen.net/self-hosted-git-server
Fomite 13y ago
I don't have a paid plan, because of the academic discount, but I've been seriously looking at alternatives, and what the impact of migrating would be.

I did move to a self-hosted git server (http://git.devlinzed.com http://git.devlinzed.com) for a number of reasons. This is one, but the server: costs less to run than the smallest paid GitHub account; supports unlimited private repositories at sizes up to 20GB; has never ever went down; is considerably faster (due to geography and SSD); and doesn't allow GitHub to harvest information about who (including myself) is using my code. Realistically, whether you're offended by GitHub's sexism or data collection policies or not, it doesn't make any sense to use them strictly from a pragmatic cost-to-benefit perspective. They simply charge far too much for far too little.

yuhong 13y ago
I wonder if the fact that there are no ads on the GitHub site is part of the problem.
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primitivesuave 13y ago
I think one big redeeming factor for GitHub is the extensive and robust API. It's very easy to hack together a custom version controlled app or system using GitHub as the backend.
- nilved 13y ago
  It's true that GitHub has a great API, but when you run your own server and have access to the running software and file system you get the best API for working on git repos there is: git. Or perhaps libgit2 and your favourite language's bindings. Subjectively, I haven't found GitHub's API to be great to work with, but this is because they use OAuth and OAuth is just needlessly complicated and inconvenient.

qeorge 13y ago

Actually, we just started a paid plan with them. We had been considering the move to GitHub, but wanted to see how this scenario played out before doing so. The issues Julie-Ann faced are important to me personally and to my company, and we couldn't support an organization that allowed such behavior to remain unchecked. I was impressed by GitHub's response in this case. A founder being forced out* of the company s/he founded, especially one as white hot as GitHub, is not a decision made lightly. It signaled to me that the issue had been taken seriously, albeit too late. But I am comfortable supporting them going forward. *That Mr. Preston-Warner was forced out is my own between-the-lines reading of his resignation once he lost support of the board.

zrail 13y ago

Yes, I ended a paid plan and I'm in the process of moving completely to my own hosting for most of my personal projects. I wrote up a little blog post about it here: https://www.petekeen.net/self-hosted-git-server https://www.petekeen.net/self-hosted-git-server

Fomite 13y ago

I don't have a paid plan, because of the academic discount, but I've been seriously looking at alternatives, and what the impact of migrating would be.