Exactly, exactly, exactly! > We were also paying Parse an absurd amount of money for extra reliability, which didn't seem to help much. We were also hooked in

Exactly, exactly, exactly! > We were also paying Parse an absurd amount of money for extra reliability, which didn't seem to help much. We were also hooked into the same scam! > For nearly any issue, a half-assed solution---often not usable in production---by one of their staff was buried deep into their forums. Super painful. Haha, well put. They always directed people to their pathetic "support forum", where one of their staff would propose a criminally bad "solution" to a problem, which no self-respecting engineer could even sanction putting into production.