GitHub Copilot vs. Socialtext (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GitHub Copilot
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
GitHub Copilot is presented as an AI pair programmer, that plugs into the user's editor. It then turns natural language prompts into code, offers multi-line function suggestions, speeds up test generation, filters out common vulnerable coding patterns, and blocks suggestions matching public code.
$10
per month
Socialtext (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Social Text was a tool that focused on social learning and includes Twitter-like microblogging capabilities. The product competed with MindTouch,Confluence, Jive Team Collaboration and other collaboration platforms. It was acquired by PeopleFluent in 2012 and is no longer available as a separate product, though similar capabilities are supplied by the PeopleFluent platform.
$1
Starting Price Per Month
Pricing
GitHub CopilotSocialtext (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
CoPilot for Individuals
$10
per month
CoPilot for Business
$19
per month per user
Socialtext
$1.00
Starting Price Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GitHub CopilotSocialtext (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GitHub CopilotSocialtext (discontinued)
Features
GitHub CopilotSocialtext (discontinued)
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
GitHub Copilot
-
Ratings
Socialtext (discontinued)
7.6
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Search00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
GitHub Copilot
-
Ratings
Socialtext (discontinued)
7.2
1 Ratings
11% below category average
Chat00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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GitHub CopilotSocialtext (discontinued)
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
GitHub CopilotSocialtext (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(8 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GitHub CopilotSocialtext (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
GitHub
Copilit is fantastic at the following: 1. Solving simple, well-defined problems, such as implementing an algorithm, manipulating a data structure, or string manipulation and regex. 2. Implementing simple APIs that are mainly CRUD in nature, with moderate business logic inside them, which may involve some processing or passing the data through an algorithm. 3. Implementation of well-defined activities, such as implementing a connection to an Oracle DB using Hibernate or JDBC, or implementing boilerplate code for a backend service to listen to Kafka events. It is not that great when it comes to understanding and implementing code in a proprietary DSL. It struggles when implementing a major feature across a complex codebase. I believe developers should also adopt the trust-but-verify paradigm when expecting highly secure or regulated code from GitHub Copilot.
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Discontinued Products
We use Social Text as a platform to air our issues with different departments. We voice our concerns and suggestions so we can help find a solution to the problems we incur on a daily basis. We need to have social text as an app so we can communicate in real time not only during work hours.
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Pros
GitHub
  • Make code development faster and quicker.
  • Helps write better code standards for projects.
  • Provide the latest functions from the technology.
  • Notifies about the deprecated functions.
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  • Version history - Always keeps the edited versions and one can revert back any time
  • Creating and Editing an article is very easy and intutive
  • Sharing the articles with peers
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Cons
GitHub
  • The only issue I faced is the context token size, it can be increase.
  • Sometime with agent mode it takes too much time, which can be reduced but I understand it also depends on the complexity of the given task.
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  • Search needs a ton of improvements. It was very slow a year ago
  • Search result quality was also not that good
  • I know they have improved their UI recently but when i used it last year it did not really have any design elements which could be used to make the articles look more presentable. It was important for us as we used it for external communication as well.
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Likelihood to Renew
GitHub
No answers on this topic
Discontinued Products
We have a lot of info in Socialtext already. It would be hard to get all that info out and port it to a different system
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Usability
GitHub
I feel that GitHub Copilot's overall usability is good due to its tight integration with Visual Studio and the workspace. However, developers expect greater ease of use, as there is a learning curve to realize productivity gains with the tool fully. I think there is room for improvement in GitHub Copilot's UI integration within Visual Studio.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
GitHub
It is useful that copilot integrates so well with vscode, which is a very common IDE. I used Tabnine for a little while but it was not that intuitive, and did not seem as helpful as GitHub copilot was. I have enjoyed GitHub copilot a lot, especially the ease of hitting the tab key and seeing quick progress in my tasks.
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Discontinued Products
I frankly like Confluence better than socialtext because of the speed and the quality of search. They also have better design elements which can help make the articles pleasant to the eyes.
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Return on Investment
GitHub
  • Our ROI of the purchase of Copilot was met in less than a day. The timesave cannot be overstated
  • Programmer boredom/dissatisfaction is down because of less repetetive crud work.
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Discontinued Products
  • We get solutions to concerns much faster
  • We promote interactions with the other depts
  • We listen and have discussions
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