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>>ig0r0+(OP)
Thank in large part to GitLab for pushing the market forward on affordable collaborative development.

We moved across when GH did their pricing changed. Free CI/CD well before "actions". Never looked back.

>>oliwar+Ch
Bitbucket offered free repos before Gitlab, but Gitlab did an amazing job making it affordable and as good as githubs offerings.

It's always pleasantly surprisingly to go to Gitlab and see how much they continue to improve.

>>Ayesh+7r1
Bitbucket was certainly more generous than GitHub at the time. I used them too. Their problem was the pricing structure. The break between "free" and "all your money, please" felt pretty harsh. They always appeared to be pushing very industrial companion tooling (eg Jira) which might have suited enterprise customers but wasn't very helpful to a freelancer. That's pretty common in SaaS. Enterprise is easier than volume.

By contrast GitLab's tiers are... Cheap. And it's perfectly feasible to do professional, modern CI flows on their free tier.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next.