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Keep in mind that these kinds of features were likely in development prior to the letter, although it's likely the letter accelerated the time table a bit.

And probably informed internal prioritization a bit, perhaps bubbling to the top a few simpler yet more-desirable features.

If it got GitHub to roll things out faster, then good job to the letter writers and good job to GitHub!

FWIW, I sent an email to Jono Bacon soon after that letter hit HN, and he was very polite and actually listened to my ramblings. I couldn't be more impressed.

I'll be keeping my GitHub subscription :-)

Eh... I don't know how confident I am in that.

The previous stuff they've launched was clearly in development earlier, but canned responses is a fairly simple, high-visibility feature that easily could have been built in response to the open letter.

Yeah. Before that I was really wondering what the heck they were doing with that $100M they raised. I mean, I get that GitHub Enterprise is a good moneymaker, but still.

Looks like they are mostly picking the low hanging fruits