spgonzalaz

Could also be plumping the turkey for sale.. ..who cares about sales and marketing if you’re just worried about cooking the books now and not the long term. Might also explain why there’s the overly rushed 1 month deadline (which is the bit I’ve found hardest to swallow).

As a user of the free tier, the short deadline has really soured my view of the company - I would have transitioned to a paid tier sometime down the line, but that’s not going to happen now. It’s fine if they don’t want to focus on me as a customer. But the tech world is small, I might end up being a decision maker in a tech company with a vldb requirement, is my opinion of planetscale going to be bias because of this now - absolutely.

But either way who cares about the long term if you’re just making yourself pretty in the shop window?

Does that just make this an echo chamber?

I honestly missed the mention of layoffs..

Again I don’t fall out with the changes, but your statement “If a company isn't profitable, it's not going to inspire trust” is pretty nonsensical - have a dig into that, clearly you’ll be surprised..

I don’t fall out with the change at all, but being given 1 month to migrate doesn’t seem well thought out, there will definitely be some avoidable negative sentiment related to that.

These are potential paying users not freeloaders to evict.