Here was my reply, but of course a nuanced refutation doesn't get as much attention as an agitative tirade :) There's definitely truth to the fact that our self-hosted setup requires a lot of Docker containers and thus resources, but things like "your notes are not yours anymore" and "proprietary solutions for everything" are very much egregiously exaggerated for effect. A nuanced, honest take wouldn't be homepage worthy, and OP's awareness of this is evident by their excellent headline writing :)

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10oz4pl/im_done...

I will say that attempting to experiment with self-hosted economics has always been a dangerous undertaking, but I believe the current state wasn't viable and made it so that avoiding prioritizing self-hosting UX was more economically lucrative than making self-hosting as great as it can be. And the latter is something I'd love to focus on more. Some more thoughts here: https://standardnotes.com/blog/making-self-hosting-easy-for-...

In the linked reply, it says "SN dev here" — that's you?

Can’t blame you - self hyped rather sad application that simply kinda sucks - I think I’ve got a lifetime lot of upgrades or something, every time I try it though I feel it’s the same mess of an application.

I do agree with many points with the OP. I looked at this, manually updated my phone app and saw myself locked out, just like that.

I do really like SN and their large featureset, especially the editor variety, but this sort of thing has happened several times over the years I've been using it. I'm not really angry because I do like it a lot, it's more of a feeling of disappointment.