Not gonna wait 30seconds to read the bloody article, when it says "5seconds ad".

this is a better link:

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-16-coming-soon-simpler...

from the tweet [1]:

"We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback.

1. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.

2. We are continuing to reduce hosted-runners prices by up to 39% on January 1, 2026.

We have real costs"

^ theres more in the actual tweet, but the preview that gets unfurled on discord cuts off there. That last lines a killer, poor olde microsoft

1. https://x.com/i/status/2001372894882918548

> GitHub stated that it has canceled the price increase after reviewing developer feedback. It added that it will take time to listen to customers and partners.

I get the feeling they got the feedback that their runners are not as indispensable to developers as they thought and realized they would lose a significant amount of users. Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copilot we might be onto something.

See also:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304379

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305216

Oh good, I can postpone my migration for personal projects.

1. Announce price increase generating bad publicity.

2. Kill bad publicity with blog pretending to be understanding and taking on feedback while "pausing" the increase.

3. Implement price increase a few months later when the bad publicity wave is over, and its old news so wont generate new headlines.