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Assembla
Company blog · blog.assembla.comprogrammingbusiness
Assembla is the company blog at blog.assembla.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2007, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 113 times, most often “Why Subversion does not suck”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Assembla's blog for posts about its hosting service, including plan and pricing changes, outages, and posts on Git vs Subversion, Agile and Rails security.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why Subversion does not suck3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-12-11
- ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-04
- Tech Leads Will Rule the World2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-11
- Assembla kills free+closed use ot its services (SVN server, Trac, etc)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-10-18
What Hacker News says?
I believe that its a test of how quickly you can patch your applications when something like this does come out - We did it in 3 hours from time of bulletin - how about you? http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/93731/...
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/93731/Continuous-Deployment-is-Secure-Howto-Patch-3rd-Party-Apps-Uber-Fast.aspx
on “SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails; affects all versions”Submitted ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru as a story · 176 points
HN discussionAgreed. It looks like the author was getting some heat for that point. http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/87899/... If you take him for his word, I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it (he says he's in that demographic). But I can't say that I'd let him off the hook that easily. Off-hand comments like this almost always come back and bite hard.
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/87899/Seven-Things-I-Hate-About-Agile.aspx
on “Seven Things I Hate About Agile”Submitted Seven Things I Hate About Agile as a story · 94 points
HN discussionAssembla isn't free for closed-source projects ( http://www.assembla.com/plans?locale=en ) unless there's a hidden plan. Apparently they made the change back in 2008 ( http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/R... ), but this article was written today which is confusing. Am I missing something? BitBucket ( http://bitbucket.org ) went free for private repositories a while back and recently added git…
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/Release-2-0-restricting-free-plans-giving-back-with-features-and-pric
on “The $0 Startup - once Costly resources for Free”Submitted Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting as a story · 76 points
HN discussionI "complained" on their blog and got a fair response from their team. Here's what they said: http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/12217/... To summarize: they didn't have a sustainable business plan and when the costs got too bit they canceled free service. They say now that they're better prepared. Maybe they're worth giving another try?
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/12217/April-14-Repo-Blitz-Free-unlimited-SVN-and-GIT-and-much-more.aspx
on “Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting”Submitted Why Subversion does not suck as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI could have sworn their accounts used to be free and then they took away the free accounts in 2008. http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7019/N... I remember because we were using assembla for some stuff and then moved away when they started charging. I guess that move didn't work too well for them.
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7019/New-subscription-plans-Clarification-and-even-better-pricing.aspx
on “Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting”Submitted Put Down Your Forks - Introducing Protected Branches as a story · 32 points
HN discussionHere's one take, though it's not wildly convincing: http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7437/W... My job in the past was to evaluate source control systems for different organizations and what made the most sense. While I think Git and Mercurial are great for open source pieces, I'd pretty much never recommend Git inside of a large organization just yet. Perhaps never given how much visibility and…
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7437/Why-Subversion-does-not-suck.aspx
on “Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git”Submitted Time to Vanquish the Mythical Man Month as a story · 27 points
HN discussionIf anyone is interested in more details, I've just posted an interview here with the same guy. Worths the check. http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/10041/...
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/10041/Distributed-Agile-Interview-Dan-Mezick-chats-with-Andy-Singleton.aspx
on ““Blink” and the Art of Hiring the Best ”Submitted Time for Genetic Programming? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionAssembla is also having issues with some code repositories (including my private SVN) http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/44389/...
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/44389/Problems-with-Amazon-EC2-is-storage-architecture
on “Who is affected by EC2?”Submitted Assembla Introducing Simple Planner for lightweight Agile, Scrum, and Kanban as a story · 14 points
HN discussionWhich is apparently what Assembla has done for internal product development: http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7437/W...
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7437/Why-Subversion-does-not-suck.aspx
on “It's Time to Fix Subversion Merge”Submitted Why buying software from IBM sucks - 173 hour response time as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI think the rationale behind this is important for all SAAS (and software) businesses to learn from: a) Desirable customers really don't care about the difference between $4 and $9. b) The user experience of consistent and predictable pricing is much more important than getting prices which are "rationally connected with costs" or "as cheap as possible". (Businesses in particular hate microtransactions. OKing a $20…
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7870/SaaS-is-cheap-results-from-the-Assembla-subscription-campaign.aspx
on “Fixed price plans are coming to Assembla”Submitted Offshoring Is Dead: How to Thrive in the New World Order as a story · 13 points
HN discussionWas. http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/R... Okay, it still is great in terms of features, and maybe for open source/public projects. But their flakiness in the past week and their management's communication issues put them to the "was" category for us.
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/Release-2-0-restricting-free-plans-giving-back-with-features-and-price-reductions.aspx
on “Ask HN: Free (or almost free) hosted version control?”Submitted Continuous Delivery and Scalable Agile - Find Out the Secret as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAssembla ( http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/98335/... )
Comment linking /assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/98335/Looking-for-a-Git-Bug-Tracker-Look-No-More.aspx
on “a thread”Submitted Why Subversion does not suck as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Time to Fix Subversion Merge as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trimming the Application Fat as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Options for Rebuilding Your Software Without Risking Death as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assembla launches Cornerstone 4 for Mac as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Continuous Integration - Keep the Mainline Clean as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Bounty Programs Are a Good Fit for the Agile Development Process as a story · 6 points
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