GitHub cancels Actions price change for self-hosted runners

So the price change is not cancelled, as the post title says, but just postponed. A big difference.

When they say "we read your posts", I wonder if they're running a language model to digest HN comments for sentiment analysis. It was overwhelmingly negative, so they're backtracking on it. If it weren't for the public reaction, they would have happily went through with the plan.

Feels similar to the recent announcement by the new Mozilla CEO to make Firefox into an "AI browser". The majority of users expressed disfavor, and now they're de-emphasizing it, while scheming behind the scenes to implement it anyway. Like how the new GitHub CEO said, basically, that programmers who don't embrace AI will become irrelevant. That was unpopular so they had to reframe the messaging for marketing purpose.

Keep in mind GitHub Actions is actually like 5 different products. So are you asking for the webhooks/events implementation, the runner orchestration implementation, the runtime image, the secrets storage implementation or the marketplace? All of these could theoretically be disparate components. GitLab gives you everything above but the marketplace