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I really don't understand the move. No way open source collectives will be able to pay the 300$/y minimum cost for an organisation and there is no way to convert an organisation back to a user. I expect there will be a lot of broken pulling of images on that day.

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Gitlab registry is maybe the easiest way out of this, either payed or self-hosted using the community version.

GitHub container registry has no limitations for public projects, unlike GitLab.

I've been publishing all of my open source containers on GHCR for this exact reason.

https://github.com/multi-py/

No limitations for now.

That could be said of any free container registry out there...

Exactly. Software development is in the middle of a clash with reality. It's just not sensible to expect to pay nothing for a piece of vital infrastructure.

100% agreed. Donate to cURL!

I thought there were size limits for the entire account?

> GitHub Packages usage is free for public packages.

https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-gith...

Gitlab registry is utterly annoying with it's confusing namespacing. Would use github oder anything else tbh.

Cachix is adding a free tier for FOSS projects. Drop Docker; move to Nix.

Unless they're exposing oci images, that solves a completely different problem

(Don't get me wrong, I like nix, but it's nothing like a drop in replacement for a container-based workflow)

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