I don’t completely get why they’re doing it, or even planning it. This is indeed like exiting the roundabout too early. Seriously.
From their point of view, I sorta get it, they need the money! It can’t be easy running all these services for free, and only a few paying members compared to the total amount of projects hosted.
However, there are still ways to keep your project private, for instance encrypting your source code and having the decryption key in a .env file, then decrypting the entire project to the /tmp directory and then start a sub-process from there.
It would be really nice if @glitch_support could explain why they’re deciding to make private projects a paid feature, as there may be more reasons than just economical advantages.
I also wonder if Glitch has thought about other solutions to economical issues, like simply asking for donations or partnerships with other companies like Google or Amazon. A possibility would be starting to sell merchandise, I think that would be beneficial!
(jk)
