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Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

177 points · 128 comments · darkwater

  1. cush · · focus · HN ↗
    Providing kickbacks to the repos being scraped would be a good way to help fund open source projects and pay creators like streaming services do. Seems like they're headed in this direction - it would be a massive product differentiator over GH
    1. MeetingsBrowser · · focus · HN ↗
      I like the idea, but that wasn’t my read.

      The guidance given seems to hurt open source projects, not help.

      > Make the project private if the traffic is not coming from the audience you built it for, which stops anonymous callers reaching it at all. Or upgrade to Premium or Ultimate for much higher limits.

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