free CI on github is so ridiculously overpowered it's hard to believe they still provide it

I've heard this claimed dozens of times. I wonder if anyone at Github can confirm this theory and maybe give insight into why they haven't just done this?

Hm looks interesting, I joined the wait list just now. :)

Isn't that why most people are on GitHub in the first place ? Which then, Windows style eventually turns into people wanting to use GitHub also for company work, where the real money comes from for GitHub.

Without free CI in GitHub, you might as well say:

"they can just shut the whole thing down and this reliability issue will be solved immediately"

Not even that heavy handed. They just need to _severely_ rate limit the top 0.1% of free users that are raping their hardware. I bet they are whales in usage terms and the root cause of many heartache.