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Great way to ruin the FogBugz brand and reputation: move everyone from free to paid tier without consent, and send out emails with a short notice telling them t
by lioeters 4y ago
Great way to ruin the FogBugz brand and reputation: move everyone from free to paid tier without consent, and send out emails with a short notice telling them they will be charged $30/month - when most of these users haven't heard from/of them in over a decade. The flood of complaints is hilarious.
https://twitter.com/search?q=fogbugz&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=fogbugz&src=typed_query
- raverbashing 4y agoYeah, the search results are golden "Good luck with the chargebacks FogBugz."
- jabbany 4y agoYeah this kind of move seems like an easy way to speed run getting kicked off your payment processor...
- that_guy_iain 4y agoHonestly, I doubt the people who bought it care. It looks like some random company with some random stock photos that is just trying to extract as much money as possible. Not the first time we've seen an acquirer completely screw up a brand in order to make more money.
- danjac 4y agoIt's a scam. If just a fraction pay up they will have made money.
- bombcar 4y agoImagine the number of people who get this email on a user who left the company five years ago - and how many would just start paying assuming it’s some important part of something somewhere?
- linsomniac 4y agoI feel like the FogBugz reputation has been being ruined for at least 5 years now, probably closer to 10. They were just letting it languish, not making any improvements. We saw the writing on the wall ~3 years ago, and I spent a month migrating all of our FogBugz tickets and wiki content over to Jira+Confluence
- krallja 4y agoIt was acquired by private equity in 2018.
- kevin_b_er 4y agoFogBugz got bought out by a vulture capital style firm that fired everyone and outsourced everything. They're going to extract as much value as they can. The reputation doesn't matter if they can sucker enough people into paying for it.
- tablespoon 4y ago> FogBugz got bought out by a vulture capital style firm that fired everyone and outsourced everything. They're going to extract as much value as they can. The reputation doesn't matter if they can sucker enough people into paying for it. As I understanding, that's a the strategy of a lot of private equity: burn goodwill and turn it into cash.