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Unlike traditional Saas, you can still use Sublime after 3 years. You just won't get regular updates.

I drive a 18 year old car. I don't need all the upgrades I just need something to drive me from a to b. This business model is similar.

PS I believe you can use it without paying anything. They nag you to pay but in a very subtle way.

Sublime rules.

I started my career with Brackets, then Sublime, then Atom for a short while. Then switched to VS Code for a few years and just recently switched back to Sublime because of how slow VS Code became.

Also great pricing! One time purchase for Sublime is still available in 2025!

This also makes matt's initial claim about wpengine being a bastardized fork hilarious since wordpress.com is even more hacked up.

Also, you cannot install most plugins on wordpress.com unless you're on the business plan.

I can't speak for blogging usecases, but for agency websites we would disable revisions and a bunch of other things for every single wordpress installation(even the blog posts that show up on the main admin area)

Heck even Jetpack, Automattics official plugin, recommends limiting revisions: https://jetpack.com/blog/wordpress-revisions/

Lastly, Wpengine never fully disabled post revisions, they just limited it to 2-3.

It's more like gaining backdoor access to the bank's server.

At this stage no attack has happened(but can happen)

Stripe undoubtly has great docs. The problem is:

- Them adding a ton of products that are automatically integrated/opted-in their default payments stack

- This has massively increases the api surface, and the complexity of integrating stripe has gone up.

- And to top it off, they charge for every single "feature" that they automatically added in their payments stack.

Nope, b2b saas. We charge a decent amount.

Scroll down Stripe's pricing page, they will charge you for literally everything.

We have annual pricing and that definitely results in lower fees and other stuff. But only a small percentage of our users are on the annual plan.

i don't use a 3rd party billing solution. I straight up created my own.

If you have a single type of pricing(eg, variable, or tiered) its very easy rolling your own.

The issues happen when you change from variable to tiered(or vice versa), change from anniversary to calendary dates, add coupons, per user custom pricing, credits, etc etc.

I don't recommend building your own if you aren't familiar with Stripe or any other billing system. Once you understand how billing works, feel free to make a custom billing solution.

Exactly, Lago seems like its riding the open source wave. Nobody reasonable is going to self host this.

100%. Stripe is a blackhole.

For my current project, I pay nearly 5-7% on each transaction to Stripe. For my next project, I'm implementing custom billing and using Stripe just as a payment processor.

A tesla base model is 60k, which is just below the luxury tax. If you purchase this car, you'll get all the ev tax benefits without the luxury tax downsides.

hoppscotch is a good alternative. Even insomnia is going down the drain.

Exactly. I get where the author is coming from but if you allow tech companies to perpentually save your data and try to cross link it to new accounts, it sets a bad precedent.

Would be interesting to inspect element and see if there are new radio options.

That's the Google way(tm)

Exactly! I though this thread was part of Elon's pledge.

This post has got 75 upvotes in the last 1 hour. Surely there must be some merit to keeping it up.

Why is this flagged ??

Incredible, how openly twitter gas-lights users when it comes to policy enforcement.

I, unfortunately, don't have a solution for you. But I'm immensely frustrated by these platforms at their ability to make these processes inanely hard.

On point. Plus the fact that chat has conventions that closely related to how we talk naturally vs etiquette based emails means that you can drop a whole bunch of charade and just talk to your users naturally.

The problem isn't live chat. The problem is incorrectly implemented live chat.

I run a small saas and I can't count the number of times someone messaged an inquiry and I immediately got in touch with them. They were astounded by the quick response time, which is simply not possible with contact forms.

"For me, the best thing that has come from the Twitter dumpster fire is that I have been posting here instead. Let’s hope for a revival of the independent web, the platforms for which people pay, the Substacks and Word Presses and the like. The better internet we all deserve."

Totally agree. Would love for Twitter to be advertiser free. Will also put pressure on other social media apps.

What shady stuff they did?

Hey folks I wrote this guide as a reference for moving our agencies projects from Wordpress to Directus.

Directus is a nodejs based open source headless CMS. Not a direct Wordpress competitor but nonetheless it is a very solid headless CMS.

In this guide I tackle issues such as:

- Does it support custom fields(like ACF)

- How is the API?

- How are the docs?

- How does media management work?

..etc.

This guide started out small but snowballed into a 3000+ word article. If you're planning to move to Directus, I hope this guide is helpful.

Figma uses CRDT. And Notion has their own thing based on CRDT(not fact checked)

Agreed. For all his warts, he runs a ton of successful businesses.

Kinda tangetial but when I saw the title, I immediately though crystal meth framework lol.

Yeah Directus is great, a bit shallow on docs though.

Also it connects to sqllite so how would it stack against OP's project?