I have a lot of half-finished projects kicking around that I would love to start on github, but I'm concerned about privacy and it certainly isn't worth it to me to pay $7/mo rather than keeping them on my Dropbox.

I haven't checked out BitBucket as I kind of thought GitHub was the only game in town, but will check it out. Would be nice to get these projects off my machine but not make them public.

edit: ohh and I'm just starting on BitBucket and it both imports from Git directly and defaults to private. Awesome.

Yeah, I dropped github years ago for bitbucket for my personal private repos. Can't beat free.

Their strategy worked because when I moved my employer off of SVN, a paid Bitbucket is where we went.

Also, I think gh has this now, but for a long time bitbucket was the only one that gave you the ability to prevent history changes on certain branches (I always do develop and master). If this had been available in gh we would not have seen those couple big projects accidentally force push develop.

Once you start integrating with their other tools, you'll be giddy with joy. But, they're not free so...