I already pay GitHub monthly because I have some repos that I want private. I'm a solo dev, only hacking on side projects that may or may not be something one day, but want to keep them private anyway. My bill is about to go down, and my benefits go up. All in all, I'm quite alright with this change, agree that it's positive.
I get that it gets worse if I ever take on N number of developers, but that's a hurdle I'll deal with if I ever get there. I do imagine I'm not alone in this position.
I've used BitBucket as a solo dev working on personal projects, a solo consultant, and an employee on a team. It's pretty mediocre, especially if you look beyond its integration with the rest of the Atlassian ecosystem.
The number of times I've wanted to search a repo for something only to have to clone it and search in my IDE is staggering.
You might want to look into https://github.com/etsy/hound if you ever want to search. I found this superior to Github as well if I want to find all repos that reference something.
Yeah, but GitHub got me early on before I cared about private repos, and honestly I was just too lazy to move stuff over. They also win me over with integrations, though I'm sure BitBucket has a similarly expansive set now. Had I ever gone full Atlassian, I'd have switched, but never wanted to add Jira to my life badly enough (though when I was seriously working on a project with a friend, I considered it).
I already pay GitHub monthly because I have some repos that I want private. I'm a solo dev, only hacking on side projects that may or may not be something one day, but want to keep them private anyway. My bill is about to go down, and my benefits go up. All in all, I'm quite alright with this change, agree that it's positive.
I get that it gets worse if I ever take on N number of developers, but that's a hurdle I'll deal with if I ever get there. I do imagine I'm not alone in this position.