• alyaza [they/she]M
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    The Register has learned that such projects account for up to a quarter of GitLab’s hosting costs, and that the auto-deletion of projects could save the cloudy coding collaboration service up to $1 million a year. The policy has therefore been suggested to help GitLab’s finances remain sustainable.

    i’m not big in tech but it seems immediately insane to me that “dormant” projects and their code could possibly be costing GitLab this much money. like, what?

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      Yeah I have no concept of how much data they have, but I know services like Backblaze barely charge anything for cloud storage, most of the cost is associated with upload and especially download. Regardless, as I saw pointed out on some other discussions, $1 million is what, a few engineers annually for a company like them? It feels like not enough money to be a big deal for them.

      EDIT: Looks like it wasn’t enough money, decision at least partly reversed.

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        32 years ago

        very interested to see how this actually plays out after the backlash. they’re giving mixed messages between public statements and private planning which kind of suggests they still might just quietly implement this later on down the road when the public lashing has died down.