i think they probably use proof-of-work but that’s plenty enough to stop ddos attacks right?
I would assume so. Maybe they aren’t trying to stop bots from getting in, but humans that use Glitch to create DDOS attacks might be harder to control? I have switched over to codesandbox.io for product development.
Edit. It turns out that there is a live-preview extension for VS Code by Microsoft, so now VS Code with auto-save by delay makes the refresh very quick as it updates by change. I have set up a workspace where I can work on projects. Still using Vercel + Domain for pushing updates.
what was the point of the fastly aquisition if the team (im assuming) had known glitch’s gradual decline in product quality? it genuinely hasnt been that long since the aquisition??
is there not like any fastly representatives that could reach out to the community to explain their side of the story? its really murky
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they could cap the network bandwith per project/user tho?
you should try out cloudflare!
Hi @jjpppp2, I am a Fastly employee (and thus representative) and what we have said publicly in the announcement is all that we can share at this time. I apologize for the frustration, but I need to point out that asking the same questions in different ways is still going to get you all the same answer in this situation. It might not be a satisfying one, and for that I am truly sorry.
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To add to this, it’s been three years since Fastly acquired Glitch. And while I know that time has had no meaning ever since Covid, three years is a lot of time for things to develop and/or change and/org do any number of things, especially in a world where time is measured in quarters. It’s been over ten of those.
As satisfying as it might be to tell ourselves that whatever we come up with as to “why this happened” is really what happened, remember that you’re the easiest person to lie to, when you’re the one telling the lie: the worst thing you could do is believe your own story in this case.
Whatever reasons you might think of, I can pretty much guarantee that you’re off base. Maybe by a little, maybe by a lot, but you won’t be right enough to confidently claim that “X is why” =)
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remember from what? is this a common saying? who are you accusing of lying?
we are just contemplating the loss of something nice, while some people are saying they knew this was coming due to gossip, some people are saying they have long wanted to get rid of hosting, some people are saying the hosting wasn’t sustainable, some people are saying this didn’t have to be done.
the people we look to for truthful information are saying they can’t talk about it.
the head of glitch says he wants to shut down hosting. no word on it being necessary—but he has made it clear that he wants to and that fastly has not compelled him to do this.
(btw fastly, could you replace the head of glitch with someone who wants to keep hosting going? edit: not to say that this would be in fastly’s or glitch’s best interest, but still could you 
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folks on the glitch team who have talked on the community forum with us, I have no doubts about how much you love glitch as it is even with its rough places. I can trust you’ve already done what you can before this announcement went out to the public. thank you for thinking about us users.
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“he has made it clear that he wants to and that fastly has not compelled him to do this.”
this is a woefully incorrect interpretation of both the fastly org chart and reality, but understandable given that anil wrote the announcement.
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glad that someone’s standing up for Anil even though he’s been focusing the responsibility for the decision on himself
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Think about the signs for a second, the support got slower, featured project stopped getting updated, and they stopped Code Jams and stuff.
Which is weird. Maybe they don’t know the answer?
Is that just a big way of saying we will never know why you closed? Do you even know?
It’s a way to say that even if we have all the details, we cannot comment more than we already have because that’s how businesses work. We’re paid employees, and if our employer says “this is what you can say, and everything else needs approval”, then this is what we can say, and if we don’t get approval for more, we can’t say more.
As an open source maintainer for multiple decades, I personally think that’s bullshit, but as an employee of a publicly traded company, those instructions make a lot of sense, and the repercussions of violating those instructions are real. We can’t say more, or get into more details, etc. etc. because it’s not our call to make, there are bigger concerns by people who look at the total business impact of decisions like these. So unless and until we get permission to go into far more detail, this is all we can do.
Do I like that? No.
Does it help when folks keep going “why aren’t you saying it”? Equally no, you’d think folks would pick up on the fact that we’re not free to say what we want here, but I get wanting more information.
Does it help others if folks keep posting their own theories on what happened? No, although it also doesn’t really impact anything, so go for it. As long as you remember that just because someone else has the same theory as you, that doesn’t add more weight to your theory, and doesn’t make it more likely to be right. Opine away, but claiming that “it’s because” as if you’re stating facts rather than conjecture: probably worth not doing.
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thank you glitch for everything
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This is sad 
. Glitch was the best platform for me to host my website…
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Im making a new static editor for now on gravix.cloud, desperate to keep some memories of glitch alive somehow ;<