I love this! Finally a more direct way for companies to sponsor open source development. GitHub Sponsors helps, but it is often so vague where the funding is going.

If companies want to help they can just... I don't know... give projects some money

Unless companies also donate money to sponsor the code review that will be required to be done by real human being I could see this idea being a problem for maintainers. Yes you have to code review a human being as well but a human being is capable of learning and carrying that learning forward and their next PR will be better, as well as being able to look at past PRs to evaluate whether the user is a troll/bad actor or someone who genuinely wants to assist with the project. An LLM won't learn and will always spit out valid _looking_ code.

More often than not, for individuals, it's barely contributing to their living costs

LOL no. The Zed founders are the guys who built Atom and Electron (and Treesitter): Nathan Sobo, Max Brunsfeld and Antonio Scandurra.

That would be my gut - he felt like they weren't getting the data they needed. If he's doing layoffs/firing that quickly, he's most certainly doing it to make a point to the rest of the company. That's the only reason you would do something like that that fast. Not endorsing it or weighing either way. Just stating the facts.

It is effective immediately. There is a full FAQ here: https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu... Essentially, "Pro" = Team - the only difference is whether it is an individual account or an organizational account. We'll work to clarify this on the site.

No, there has not been any change to the data pack pricing for LFS data.

Glad this will help you continue building on GitHub!

Hi, I'm Erica, GitHub's COO. Pricing for Pro Accounts has been changed to $4/mo.It includes 2GB of Packages storage, 10 GB of data transfer and email support. You can downgrade your account to the Free tier if you'd like by following these steps: https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-bi...

A full FAQ on pricing is available here: https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...

Hope that's helpful!

I just tried downgrading from my Pro Account and got:

"Your account can not be downgraded yet because one or more of your private repositories is over the collaborator limit for the free plan. Please make sure that each of the private repositories owned by your account below has 3 or fewer collaborators before downgrading your account. Questions? Please contact support@github.com."

Am I missing something or is this not implemented yet?

Seems kind of odd as Pro isn't listed on https://github.com/pricing as far as I can see.

We're working on clarifying this.

I think EngineYard is going elsewhere- Microsoft only acquired the Deis part of the business.

Thanks for the feedback. We're working on refining our pricing. If you want to use the service, shoot me an email to erica at bitnami and we'll work something out.

We (Bitnami) have been using Zesty for a couple of weeks and are really happy so far. The food has always arrived on time, they've been great at helping us curate the list of restaurants they rotate through for us and the food is healthy and plentiful.

Yes, that was VisiCalc. Thanks for catching that!

Another typo: the link to the source is to "gethub.com/discourse". Funny thing is when I clicked it I assumed GitHub was having another outtage until I scanned the Url more closely.

I think the $7-$8 price point is ideal. It is affordable enough for most companies to be able to justify it. Over $10/meal starts seeming a little extravagant to me.

Source: Startup founder who is about to sign up with the service to give it a try because I've been looking for something like this.