Replit

From good to absolute worst

Everything was going smoothly, until the company decided to start emptying pockets of their users above anything else. Replit announced that your repls could only stay online when you are actively within the workspace, now Replit Deployments stand as Replit's only hosting option. This decision seemed to counter Replit's user-friendly ethos, sparking widespread confusion and shock within the community. Especially as they promised to never force users to move away from pingers to a paid ...

New very expensive pricing, predatory billing, and lies about discounts

While this was once a fantastic service, they have made it exponentially more expensive. It just isn't affordable anymore. They gutted the original "hacker" (which was $7 per month) plan and added all the great features from it to another new plan called "pro" which is $20 per month. They have a predatory upgrade page as well, with no checkout page. Clicking the button for the new "pro" plan instantly charges you and upgrades your account. If you want to downgrade, you have to contact ...