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The audience of HN is also the audience who will pick what payment provider they want for their new projects. Horror stories like this one are relevant to this
by cm2187 4y ago
The audience of HN is also the audience who will pick what payment provider they want for their new projects. Horror stories like this one are relevant to this audience (and why they get upvoted).
- Firmwarrior 4y agoyeah man, I'm going to avoid Stripe now that I've seen this (or at least I'll treat them the same way I'd treat Paypal or an angry venomous snake)
- blowski 4y agoI agree with the OP. Nobody should be choosing a critical dependency based on anecdotes like this, which tell only one side. If there were a post that aggregated such anecdotes with a more neutral stance, that might be more interesting.
- themitigating 4y agoBut it's anecdotal evidence at best and at worst this person is only telling their side of the story
- JanSt 4y agoThat is true, but we have heard many of these stories that could only be resolved by using HN. How many more stories are there, that we don't here about because the affected people don't know HN? At some point it becomes a pattern.
- themitigating 4y agoSo there's a pattern because of stories you don't know exist?
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- jjcon 4y agoIt doesn’t matter that it is anecdotal in plenty of these HN support cases, the fact that this is possible at all is commonly what is atrocious (in other words, this should happen zero times). IE You can’t deflect a nuclear plant meltdown by saying we need to know how long it was running fine beforehand.
- themitigating 4y agoYou don't even know if he is telling the truth. He didn't even reveal the name of his business, why are you so sure it's true?