GitHub new “PRO” badges is a joke?

[hilaly]

Github show up today with new "PRO" banners bellow pictures in users profiles and also in miniatures after mouseover . Almost 80% of people i searched for have this banner. I just want to understand what kind of utility does new badge bring off to the community when there is only a "PRO" and no badge.

[thenetadmin]

https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

Here's the explaination.

[szhu → thenetadmin]

I finally caved and started paying for GitHub 3 days ago… time to downgrade back to free!

[kfei → szhu]

Same here.

[JCharante]

Does anyone find it funny how when you sign up for the student developer pack, GitHub gives you a $7/mo discount for 2 years, but still considers you having the first tier of their subscription, so now the only people with a PRO badge are actually students.

[tomtompl]

Pro = paid subscription

[thenetadmin → tomtompl]

Well, this makes sense...

[ajunior]

GitHub Developers is now PRO. https://blog.github.com/changelog/2019-01-08-pricing-changes...

[heyjudy]

Surprised Microsoft didn't shame unpaid users directly and offer premium merge options yet.