My Small Replit Rant

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This is just one rant I have about Replit. We obviously know about Deployments, and a huge discussion went on about them. Well, I just want to mention one thing: I don’t like how you have to pay just to link a custom domain. I was trying to link a custom domain to one of my Flask Repls, which was a mini image hoster. I didn’t like seeing the repl.co stuff because then people could just view all my images, etc. So, I tried linking a custom domain, which would make it less obvious that it was hosted on Replit just by looking at the domain. But then I realized you need to have a deployment, which costs money. Honestly, that is not too good in my eyes. I feel like it’s a dumb requirement.

Anyway, I have another rant to make about the API. Pika brought up in Discord the fact that you can’t even view followers/following without being logged in anymore. This means the API now requires SID to view followers/following, which is pretty much kind of dumb. It’s weird that you would need to log in just to see someone’s followers and following. I’m also pretty sure there are dozens of community-run Repls/projects that use this API for purposes like seeing your followers’ followers, etc. This change is going to interrupt them or has already affected them in multiple ways, and it’s a pain to constantly update the SID since obviously SIDs get invalidated often.

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Well, repl.co is being deprecated… And it wouldn’t make sense to connect a domain to a link that will only work while you’re in the editor…

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goal → relatively more money

and…
users → less money
less users → relatively more money

so…
goal → less users

By transitive property.

Makes sense right?

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…no?

Not at all???

goal → not go broke

more paying users → more money
more money → not go broke

goal → more paying users

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lol i should do a math proof on stuff lol

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Result → Less free users
Less free users → Less users
Less users → Less popularity
Less popularity → Irrelevant
Irrelevant → Less paying users
Less paying users → bankrupt

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Well, not if all those free users switched to paying, but, I doubt that’d happen…

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I think they meant that since they’re paying for less hosting power and Repls and stuff then they have more money (which is why users means less money)

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I know what they meant. But that doesn’t make sense.

So how does that = relatively more money?

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It doesn’t. We showed different scenarios

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Wait, what? Completely? Are we going to have to pay for that, too :roll_eyes: ?

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Both of you showed what would happen with less users…

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Oh yeah, I see. Well, Python showed that they would lose less money, while I showed that they would make less money.

(Is that what breaking even means?)

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A post was split to a new topic: What is Replit’s Discord server?

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unfortunately they think removing non-paying users makes replit more ‘professional’. Adding something like Replit for Business and then having ad-supported plans on the main site would solve many issues

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bankrupt → go back to being free
going back to being free → charging money again
charging money again → less free users
less free users → less users
less users → less money
less money → bankrupt again

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How will they pay for hosting for free users if they’re bankrupt?

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Take out a loan?
I didn’t think that through, you have a point

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Bankrupt → no Replit
∴ keeping Replit → not bankrupt
∴ keeping Replit → not losing money
∵ running Replit has costs, not losing money → Replit making money
∴ Replit cannot be totally free (it must make money somehow)

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why does line 4 have the upside down icon?

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