We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch

Re:We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch by diggan on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:50AM (#44071128)

I'm similarly lost as GP, and even reading this, I feel like I'm missing something.

If HN said they're disabling new submissions and comments, that'd effectively mean they're closing the site, and would probably say that outright.

But Glitch aren't saying they are shutting down, but they're removing the feature that I thought made Glitch a thing. So nothing is left, yet they continue? Is this a 180 pivot or? Are there other features that will still be usable?

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Re:We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch by eitland on Friday May 23, 2025 @06:21AM (#44071531)

It could go the Piczo route—a website builder aimed at kids and teens, not for polished blogs or ecommerce, but more for one-off, personal and playful friend-to-friend sites.

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Re:We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch by diggan on Friday May 23, 2025 @07:24AM (#44071819)

> a website builder aimed at kids and teens

They're still just hosting websites in that scenario, which seems to be exactly what they don't want to do. A bit like if GitHub decided they didn't want to host source code anymore.

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Re:We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch by dgimla20 on Friday May 23, 2025 @09:02AM (#44072494)

Bloody hell. That name takes me back. I got started on web with Piczo (albeit moved on very quickly).

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