GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even heard of git.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographics" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographi...</a>

I'm very happy for their success, I really see GitHub as one of the most rapidly evolving services; my only wish is for BitBucket to receive the same care.

I love GitHub and when our company recently migrated its code to Git, we were much interested in hosting the code on GitHub. I was surprised that they have a repository size limit, or more precisely I was surprised by how low the limit is. They have no hard quota, but they "don't recommend repository size over 1GB". Plans don't make a difference.<p>We're a small four-people workshop, but our repos are easily several gigabytes in size because of the artworks, source photos and similar stuff. We would probably have squeezed under their limit, but did not want to live under the constant threat of growing out of it.<p>So, I love GitHub, will continue using it for my public stuff, but I am surprised you can't easily host 10-15 GBs of private code even though you're willing to pay $50 a month for it.

How are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!

Github is the best place for Social Coding. Can't tell you how easy it is to manage a Repository being a Release Engineer with Github.

Well deserved. The team has consistently brought the kinds of functionality we need as developers since they launched the service. Kudos guys!

This made me curious what my user number was. You can see it on your Account page source:<p><a href="https://skitch.com/e-dasil003/f5nx6/safari" rel="nofollow">https://skitch.com/e-dasil003/f5nx6/safari</a><p>Unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to explore user numbers like going to /users/5603 for example. That is actually the route for DELETEing your account, but it doesn't have a GET redirect or anything.

".. and as a gift to you all, we'll be building side by side diffs!"<p>(j/k -- congrats to the Github team, you can pry my account from my cold dead hands)

If anyone's interested in their growth curve, this scraper of their search engine using date ranges gives you figures for their number of users every month since they started. <a href="https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/github_users_each_year/" rel="nofollow">https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/github_users_each_year/</a>

If you don't like GitHubs pricing model, just download and install Gitorious on your own server. It's open source.

When was this reached? I setup an account a few hours ago and have to wonder if I am the millionth user?? ;-)

Good work GitHub team! Using github as part of my workflow has greatly helped my efficiency. Their interface makes reviewing code and making comments much easier.

GitHub is basically the Facebook of software developers and I think it is eating LinkedIn's launch.

such a coincidence that this happens the day I created a Bitbucket account :)

How many users does the biggest public SVN repo have?

Well done GitHub! Keep up the good work.