What an awful change. I was going to host a Minecraft 1.19.3 server network on Replit, but the reduction of boosted Repls and always-on Repls from 5 to 1, and the fact that the boost has been nerfed to 2 vCPUs + 2 GB RAM has really pissed me off. Now, I can only afford to host 1 single server here because of these changes.
This is really sad. My dream of making a whole entire network, with an active community, at an affordable price of just $7.00 a month, has been crushed, all by the exact same people who made this IDE in the first place.
They note it feels ranty even to themselves, the community, has, and always will be toxic unless you know coding, it in and of itself expects everyone to know how to code but refuses to teach them. This is the majority of the community, which is why you will only see staff and a handful of people on these forums. It really doesn’t help that sometimes you have to be very patient with people in this community as when they say they’re beginners, they really know absolutely nothing
oh, sorry, then, it’s just the community here tends to be kinda toxic, but I guess I’m basing it off my memories of cycle farming. Most of the time, a lot of people just want clout in old replit (that was the incentive to help others), the moment they took it away, people started to fight a lot more, and get mad at people who comment on their repls sometimes.
The Replit community started to decline ever since they made the new Community tab, got rid of Replit Talk, and introduced cycles. I guess it’s more profitable for Replit now but the old community feel is completely gone.
But still I believe if they add more value to cycles it would be nice, and if they change how the community feed works
Maybe using toxic wasn’t really the right word. Ig the community just felt more open and approachable in the past. For me at least it felt really welcoming even when I asked stupid questions or did stupid stuff.
But still I believe if they add more value to cycles it would be nice, and if they change how the community feed works
yeah I totally agree with that. If they fixed how the community feed works (especially how trending works) I think things would be a lot better.
oh, sorry, then, it’s just the community here tends to be kinda toxic, but I guess I’m basing it off my memories of cycle farming. Most of the time, a lot of people just want clout in old replit (that was the incentive to help others), the moment they took it away, people started to fight a lot more, and get mad at people who comment on their repls sometimes. @bigminiboss
Yeah cycle farming was a bit of a problem. But there does need to be some incentive for people to put out cool projects and help people. Doesn’t have to be cycles, but if there isn’t some kind of reward system (badges, likes, whatever) then there is no incentive to make cool stuff and help poeple.
I help people and a bunch of different forums over the past 2 or so years for nothing not a single cent. I don’t get free cycles or hacker for helping. I’m not trying to sound like I’m complaining because I just love helping people even though it’s free. And we have badges on likes here but they are not shared with the main site.
Yeah I was actually semi-ok with the new community when it shipped. What tipped me off was that ‘posts’ were comments in the Repl, that quickly got lost once there were other comments above it. They key highlight of the old community was that everything were posts, with a repl attached to it, giving reddit vibes.
Now you just publish a Repl, if someone likes it within a few minutes, great! you’re #1 instantly, if you get no likes in the first day or so, the repl is good as dead. The old community had the 50 likes thing which got into trending, which was really enjoyable because you could slowly see the upvotes growing and once it reaches 50 you would be featured on the home page. Now everything’s more dumbed down per se, less engaging.
I’ve given this change a good bit of thought overnight and have been reading and re-reading everyone’s comments, in addition to checking my notes and seeing that i just renewed my hacker plan on Dec 24, 2022.
I’ve come to a slightly obvious conclusion that has been mentioned or hinted at in several comments in this thread already.
While the April deadline is a bit nicer than ‘effective immediately’ I think that absolutely must be changed to April 3rd or upon your hacker plan renewal date.
With the plan set to auto-renew and for all purposes being a ‘set it and forget it’ system, that comes with some expectation of consistency. I can’t think of any downside to this form of grandfathering.
People who buy in today have a clear bill of goods and know what is on offer and can decide if they see value in the plan, while those who already did aren’t left feeling ripped off.
Additionally, that gives replit plenty of time to formulate additional plans/packages and when the existing plans expire, current hacker members would have some degree of choice about what it is they want moving forwards.
Keeping things in perspective, the hacker plan was always a great value and clearly priced lower than necessary. The thing to keep in mind is that everyone who bought in, did so to support the growth and as a show of support for replit.
I know back when I first subscribed back in 2019, before so many of today’s features existed and the site was known as repl.it, I certainly made the initial purchase not out of need but out of enthusiasm for what could be possible.
I think in addition to being the fair (and honest) thing to do, respecting the end date of pre-paid plans with the same level of service as purchased would go a long way toward erasing the sting of yesterday’s all too cheerful announcement.
