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Github listens and lowers price for Organizations

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100 pointsjcapote24 comments

They are still too expensive by limiting you on the number of private repositories and not on storage or something else (requests, etc).

If you are a small business or a freelancer you have a lot of small projects each into a separate repository. So with each new customer you use up another private repository until you have to upgrade to the next plan.

I won't use GitHub until it's either metered (like Amazon EC2/S3) or until they only charge for "active" repositories -- meaning repositories where I had commits or some other form of activity during the billable month.

I agree but charging based on repo count does seem to work for most people. If I'm switching to github for my private repos, I want to be able to put everything in there. Being limited to 10 or even 20 just doesn't cut it for me. I'd have to throw down $200 to get near what I want but my usage might not be greater than someone paying $25 or less.

If one of your projects becomes dormant, you always have the option to move it off the site. If it becomes active again, it's easy to push the repository back up to github.

Yeah, I have several git repos that I don't need to work on now but could want in the future (and can't post publicly) in Dropbox for safe keeping. I deleted them from GitHub so I could stay under my Micro plan's limit.

One of the great things about using git :)

That sounds like a lot of overhead that is best avoided. For me, half the point of these types of services is the "upload and stop worrying" mentality.

I hear that people like to pay money for peace of mind.

s/like/are willing/

I don't really use GitHub, but the same issue comes around with BitBucket. The main obstacle to taking projects off BitBucket is their issue tracker (wiki is cloneable). You don't really want to lose issue history every time you take something off the site. I've been looking at distributed bug trackers such as Bugs Everywhere (http://bugseverywhere.org/be/show/HomePage) for this reason.

It seems like this could be a new feature for github - archive a project.

> If you are a small business or a freelancer you have a lot of small projects each into a separate repository.

You should check http://RepositoryHosting.com . 6/mo buys you unlimited repositories and users, git/hg/svn, SSL, etc.

So you're still paying a 2x premium to get organizations, but at least you can do it at a lower price point.

Small plan: 10 private repos, 5 collaborators, $12

Bronze plan: 10 private repos, infinite collaborators, Organizations, $25.

Similarly, the Medium is $22, and the Silver is $50, both for 20 private repos.

Features cost money, news at 11.

Features which by definition segment your customers into "for profit businesses" and "everybody else" should probably cost more than anybody here can stand charging. People who complain are beautiful snowflakes who are out of scope for the product.

I agree.

One question: Isn't the "organization"-feature also used for open-source stuff that's not for profit? Or doesn't this cost?

Yeah--organizations with only public repositories are completely free.

1) We love and will continue to support open source. 2) It's part of the network effect that gets more people using the service.

Just as with personal plans, organizations with no need for private repos have a free plan available.

At that point you might as well use the "personal" accounts. For me, since there's just two of us on something that doesn't require that much disk space, we've been using a micro account for a year now. (I guess Github doesn't have space requirements either now too.)

The true benefit of this Organization feature appears to be for managing large teams, thus their "premium" for infinitely large collaborators. You don't really need those features for five people.

I looked into github for our company a while ago, but since we deal with quite a lot of consultancy work where we offer collaborator access to clients (for their own changes, issue tracking, etc), it was going to be prohibitively expensive to afford a plan which got everyone the necessary account.

In contrast, having unlimited users, even with a fairly small set of repos, is a very valuable offering, and I might reconsider it in favour of our current redmine setup, which doesn't offer nearly as many useful features.

At $25, which is only £16 or so, it's pretty much on-par with the VPS we're hosting our current repos on.

This is excellent news. We will upgrade as soon as we can. Well done github.

Love it! In the process of switching my startup over from unfuddle now.

Thanks guys!

I don't use Github yet, but they seem awesome.

Still far far from usable to us. Assembla offers free unlimited git/svn repos, and it works great.

Thanks for the idea of Assembla, I didn't know about it. At least, you pay for what you want.

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