[HN Gopher] Changes to Hosting on Replit
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Changes to Hosting on Replit
Author : marjipan200
Score : 41 points
Date : 2023-10-04 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (blog.replit.com)
| simonw wrote:
| Will Replit still be available as a free tool for people who are
| learning to program to use for private experiments?
|
| This post talks about hosting in terms of apps that other people
| can visit, but it's not clear to me if Replit is still going to
| work as a tool I can suggest to beginner programmers as an online
| development environment.
| jjtheblunt wrote:
| They clearly say you can get a developer setup that should cost
| about 20 cents per month, so that might the new version of what
| you mention.
| simonw wrote:
| That's a problem, because when you're teaching people to
| program you often find that anything that needs a credit card
| at all is a blocker.
|
| Young people often don't have them. People from other
| countries often don't have one that works. People who work
| for organizations often don't have the ability to spend any
| money at all for work they are doing that relates to that
| organization.
| amasad wrote:
| This is for hosting. Development remains free
| kibwen wrote:
| Yes, I have some friends who wanted to learn Python and we used
| replit to great effect to collaborate together on a little
| text-based game. I don't blame them for charging, although it
| will be a shame to raise the barrier for an educational
| playground.
| an_aparallel wrote:
| if you create a github account, you get a workspace with git,
| a debugger, a file system and so on - bloody incredible if
| you ask me.
| oldtownroad wrote:
| The blog post mentions that the website no longer lists the
| deprecated functionality. The website still says that there's a
| free plan so my reading of the blog post + website is that
| they're removing the free Always On feature and replacing it
| with Deployments. The free "write code and run it" IDE product
| is unchanged. That's my guess!
|
| https://replit.com/pricing
| amasad wrote:
| Yes, in fact we recently made the free plan more powerful with
| non-preemptible VMs, premium networking, and package caching
| for everyone. And working on an AI free tier coming soon. Will
| likely invest more in the free plan once the abuse from
| unlimited hosting go away.
|
| Also -- the title is slightly misleading. Static hosting is
| still free, and autoscale (with scale to zero) will effectively
| cost next to nothing for most users. Especially new programmers
| get very little traffic that according to our historic data it
| will cost $0.2 / month.
|
| Finally beginners who cannot afford to pay but learned enough
| coding can make money on the site. eg, a story earlier today:
| https://x.com/replit/status/1709577707435274414?s=46
| [deleted]
| gabrielsroka wrote:
| Don't editorialize. Actual title "Changes to Hosting on Replit"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| dang wrote:
| Thanks, we've changed it now.
|
| Submitted title was "Replit moving away from free hosting".
| (Apparently it's a bit more complex than that but I haven't
| looked at the details.)
| lagniappe wrote:
| The edited title was more useful for what's really going on.
| BarryMilo wrote:
| > please use the original title, unless it is misleading
|
| The original title is misleadingly vague.
| [deleted]
| falcor84 wrote:
| The original title should be kept when it has semantic content;
| this one doesn't.
| dang wrote:
| We do tend to treat corporate announcements differently in
| this respect, but apparently the submitted title isn't quite
| true, and I don't think the article's title is so bad as far
| as corpspeak goes.
| temporarara wrote:
| Only tangentially related but out of curiosity I visited the
| actual replit.com site and the amount of moving and blinking
| things made me to close the tab almost immediately.
| dukeyukey wrote:
| I don't blame them for stopping the free tier, but they really
| don't make it obvious thats what's happening. Feels almost
| deceptive. This is the only part that mentions it:
|
| > Want to use deployments but don't want to spend $7/mo for the
| Hacker plan? We thought about you as well. Starting today, you
| can now pay for Autoscale & Static Deployment overages without a
| plan
| amasad wrote:
| It's communication meant to existing users and it's a nuanced
| picture worth elaborating. But if you are not an active user
| it's best if you just look at our pricing page for a complete
| picture: https://replit.com/pricing
| [deleted]
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| So pay-as-you-go? Would be nice if it had some spend limit.
| kobpow wrote:
| It does have a spend limit! (See later on in post)
| lagniappe wrote:
| For the inevitable discussion about open source alternatives:
| "How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project"
|
| Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
|
| Link: https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
| emmelaich wrote:
| Seems like riju.codes is no more?
| benatkin wrote:
| It looks like it is semi-active. The website appears to be
| down. The repo has some recent activity but not a whole lot.
| https://github.com/radian-software/riju/graphs/contributors
|
| There are two others in the readme:
| https://github.com/radian-software/riju/#similar-projects
| [deleted]
| flashgordon wrote:
| I guess time to eff that with an eff u?
| benatkin wrote:
| That seems to reveal their true colors. One to be avoided.
| Google Cloud with it, since they announced a big partnership,
| and would have had to have known about this.
| jb2282 wrote:
| i stop using replit after it started taking minutes to install
| crates... It started out so awesome, professor started using it
| instead of eclipse, it was super easy to teach on, and group
| projects were made easy for pair programming.
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