Comment by steve_adams_86
21 hours ago
I was late to the party: 457,207
Created at 2010-10-27T23:42:22Z. 16 years! What a wild ride. I used to use bitbucket a ton back then. I loved it.
21 hours ago
I was late to the party: 457,207
Created at 2010-10-27T23:42:22Z. 16 years! What a wild ride. I used to use bitbucket a ton back then. I loved it.
For comparison, I'm 208,820 and we're in the same year: I got that number 2010-02-23. So GitHub more than doubled user count that year, impressive for a "late to the party" growth.
https://api.github.com/users/fmalk
Top million though! Still earliest 1%.
I'm at 18 years and ID 1653. It took them a while to gain traction.
They actually had meaningful competition back then, too. Bitbucket had free private repos and hg support! Back when that was still a topic.