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Re:Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback by jrochkind1 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @10:12AM (#31294619)
> New features have been banned for years. Only "keep the lights on" projects are allowed.

That's what it's looked like from the outside -- that no features were for whatever reason(s) no longer going to happen. But still dismaying to hear it from the inside in those terms.

Re:Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback by hthrowaway3 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @10:44AM (#31294898)
You've gotta go way back on the Heroku Changelog to find anything that isn't a language version upgrade or feature removal: https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog

I think the feature freeze happened in 2018

Re:Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback by jrochkind1 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:43PM (#31296769)
The interesting thing is that heroku still is so at the top of what it does, as far as developer UX and ease and reliability. It's hard to describe exactly what i mean, but I know plenty of other people agree. Other things do other things better -- but it's only in the past year or two that some things have started to come close or equal.

I don't know what's going on exactly. Those who set up heroku for the first ~5 years somehow did such a good job that they could coast for another 5-10 and still stay on top of what they were on top of.