<story><title>Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/01/ci-minutes-update-free-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>One thing that always confuses me about the business factors in this kind of announcement, where they say that the vast majority of users won&amp;#x27;t be effected:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We evaluted CI&amp;#x2F;CD minute usage and found that 98.5% of free users use 400 CI&amp;#x2F;CD minutes or less per month.&lt;p&gt;Okay, so just that 1.5% of free users, each using at most 1600 minutes more than the 400 under the new limits... is enough cost to actually matter and make it worth making this change?&lt;p&gt;Or they anticipated that number going up if they didn&amp;#x27;t make the change?&lt;p&gt;It seems odd to me to say &amp;quot;This hardly effects anyone at all, almost everyone can keep doing exactly what they are doing for the same price (free in this case)&amp;quot;, AND &amp;quot;this was necessary for the sustainability of our budget.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nialv7</author><text>These are carefully constructed truthful statistic lies.&lt;p&gt;Of all the free users, how many of them even have a repository? Out of all the users who have a repository, how many of them actually make any use of CI&amp;#x2F;CD?&lt;p&gt;They are saying &amp;quot;1.5%&amp;quot; to make it sounds small, but those 1.5% could account for a significant portion of total minutes of CI&amp;#x2F;CD used.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/09/01/ci-minutes-update-free-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>One thing that always confuses me about the business factors in this kind of announcement, where they say that the vast majority of users won&amp;#x27;t be effected:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We evaluted CI&amp;#x2F;CD minute usage and found that 98.5% of free users use 400 CI&amp;#x2F;CD minutes or less per month.&lt;p&gt;Okay, so just that 1.5% of free users, each using at most 1600 minutes more than the 400 under the new limits... is enough cost to actually matter and make it worth making this change?&lt;p&gt;Or they anticipated that number going up if they didn&amp;#x27;t make the change?&lt;p&gt;It seems odd to me to say &amp;quot;This hardly effects anyone at all, almost everyone can keep doing exactly what they are doing for the same price (free in this case)&amp;quot;, AND &amp;quot;this was necessary for the sustainability of our budget.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>contravariant</author><text>It wouldn&amp;#x27;t surprise me if 90% (or more) of their free users use exactly 0 minutes of CI&amp;#x2F;CD per month.&lt;p&gt;So then it&amp;#x27;s more like 1 in 6 of the people that &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; use CI&amp;#x2F;CD need more than 400 minutes per month.&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, these numbers are completely made up. They seem reasonable though.</text></comment>