If you haven’t noticed, Glitch has released uptime limits for projects per user. According to the Glitch Help Center,
To make Glitch accessible for everyone:
Apps created on Glitch are given an allowance of Project Hours.
Project Hours are spent when:
The project is being actively edited.
Someone accesses the user-facing side of a Glitch project that is not a static site
Every registered user gets 1,000 free Project Hours each month. Project hours are replenished on the first day of each month. Unused Project Hours cannot be rolled over.
Anonymous users get 120 free Project Hours. To get additional hours, the anonymous user will need to register an account or transfer project ownership to an existing Glitch account
The Project Hours limit does not apply to Boosted Apps. If you are a Glitch Memberhttps://glitch.com/pricing the monthly allowance of 1,000 Project Hours will be applied to any non-Boosted apps that you own.
Another new thing related to this new change is this:
The hello-webpage template gets you started with a basic static website with an index.html page and static HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Just type and your work will be live on the internet! Static websites enjoy unlimited uptime too! This means that your app stays on 24/7 without using up your allowance of Project Hours.
Which means hello-webpage websites are online 24/7.
I don’t think this might create a lot of problems, because even if you edit for 24 hours for 30 days, it’s still only equal to 720 hours. Plus, 280 hours extra.
2474 > 1000, I guess you can have a fourth of the 24 bot uptime
this reminds me of github but for boosted members can’t you just unboost a project and boost the project you are working on to get rid of the restriction and then repeat whenever you want to work on a project
not everything can be made free without money problems sadly
Also “non-Boosted apps that you own.”, does that mean I’ll lose hours editing a friends boosted project? Oh nvm Jenn clarified below
Also fun idea, why not get extra hours on your birthday or cakeday!
Hi @javaarchive, the way to think about it is that they are project hours, not user hours - so you won’t lose anything by editing another user’s Boosted project.
It’d be cool if glitch projects could be a virtual filesystem mounted onto your computer so each folder is a project at the toplevel and we can edit them without turning on the project then press a sync button to update the files to save hours
we’d have to hope that no one leaves the project open or leaves something like a chat app open in the tab otherwise it might use up a of project hours. Maybe we can shutdown the project if no keystrokes are performed within 15mins because I sometimes leave glitch projects open in a tab.
and it takes ages to update the bots code, but with glitch it updated instantly 