I work for a non-profit open source organization that collaborates on github (https://github.com/edx/) We have lots of people who aren't employees, but have signed a contributor agreement with our organization and contribute changes to our software. Our bill will go up from $200/month to over $2000/month with this new pricing. We can afford it (it's still a small fraction of our AWS bill) but it will force us to look at other alternatives. Github's code review tools are already pretty mediocre compared to other tools like gerrit, and we've long since moved off of github issue tracking due to lack of features compared to JIRA.

I couldn't agree more. It has annoyed me when companies charge more for decisions about how you choose to do something - in this case how you split up your code. Paying per person makes much more sense.

> This is a good deal for small organizations that like to have many small repositories (for internal libraries, utilities, micro services, modules, etc).

I'm a small contracting shop: makes more sense to me. I might have 100 repos, but I can only develop so fast. Now all I'm costing GitHub is a little diskspace (which is insanely cheap, especially for text).

If you want unlimited private repositories, just use bitbucket instead. It's free instead of $7 a month.

Price per idle/obsolete etc repo - $1.5-$2.5/month and goes down with number of repos. Price per idle/noncontributing user - $9/month and it stays constant.

In any case, for my org it would mean ~5x cost increase. So yes, nice spin.

My company, for one, was actually in the middle of shifting to BitBucket off of Github, because the costs were becoming unjustifiable.

We have a growing number of repos that are more-or-less "finished" projects, and few if any changes are made per year. Accounting was starting to groan... and BitBucket's model fit our small team almost perfectly, although Github's UI, flow, etc, was, in our opinion, still better. New talent almost always has an existing Github account we can integrate, instead of needing to make and manage a new BitBucket account.

Now, with this news, we'll just reverse course and stick it out with Github.

I've personally stuck to Bitbucket for all my private repositories exactly because Githubs pricing model made it untenable. For that price I might just sign up, even though I might keep syncing to Bitbucket anyway, just because I'm paranoid.

> Lastly, this is a huge freebie for individual accounts that now get unlimited repos for $7/month.

It's also nice for student, like myself, who get unlimited private repos for $0 a month.

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