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Comment by MatthewPhillips | Hacker News Reader

For me it's as simple as open source projects go on GitHub, private projects go on Bitbucket.

Ditto for me. It is the unlimited free private repos that initially drew me to Bitbucket, however, I am now happily paying the $10 per month for multiple members of the team (7 of them) for the company account.

Using Github the way we would like (multiple repos) would put us in the $50 per month bracket, which seems excessive.

Bitbucket, for our use case, has the perfect price point.

This. I switched from github to bitbucket in all of about 10 minutes a weekend ago for my private repos. $7/month more in my pocket.

I did find it interesting that when I canceled with Github they killed my "paid account" status right away, rather than let me have the rest of the month.

I wish GitHub would offer unlimited private repos and just charge for collaborators. I don't mind paying $12/month for 10 repos, but I've gotten to the point where I have old projects sitting around that I still want access to but can't make public.

I wish there were a way to make a repo an archive, an inactive repo, so it doesn't count towards your private repo count. The same goes for deprecated repos.

I still have some older repos I keep around because they show how (poorly) I coded way back when, and I don't plan on showing that to potential employers perusing my account. :P

Couldn't you create a repo in bitbucket and push to it as a new remote head to keep your revision history?

Might Github have issued a prorated refund to your credit card for the portion of the month unused?

Exactly. Especially when you are a one-man team, there is no use for any of GitHub's social features for private repos.

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