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Not really. OPs analogy is closer. It’s more like you’ve been getting free samples and eating them, then they said “ok, no more” without prior warning. You woul

Not really. OPs analogy is closer. It’s more like you’ve been getting free samples and eating them, then they said “ok, no more” without prior warning. You wouldn’t expect them to have to give you a discontinue warning and a grace period for you to find another free sample provider

remram 3y ago
I definitely would, and I have received such warning from more professional providers. Even my local grocery store sends an email when canceling tasting and marketing events. I don't know why you think otherwise. Netlify's own EULA states (https://www.netlify.com/pdf/self-serve-subscription-agreement.pdf/ https://www.netlify.com/pdf/self-serve-subscription-agreemen...): > While we always make an effort to communicate clearly and well in advance if we decide a particular website project is not a good fit for our Free Usage Tier, we reserve the right to disable or remove any website project on Netlify’s Free Usage Tier without notice at our sole discretion so every free user should very much expect "an effort to communicate clearly and well in advance". They were explicitly told they should.
- horsawlarway 3y ago
  See - I read that exact same message, and applying my "contract legalese" filter I come away with the utter opposite opinion. "we reserve the right to disable or remove any website project on Netlify’s Free Usage Tier without notice at our sole discretion" That's the promise. Full stop. Everything else is filler words to make that seem more palatable to people. You are being misled because you are not reading the contract as "a list of things netlify MUST do". Making assumptions based on anything else is folly - you are trusting a commercial entity to be "nice" and that's a really, really bad thing to trust them to do.
  - remram 3y ago
    No one is saying they broke the law, just that it's very unprofessional and should be taken as a sign of unreliability, in stark contrast to someone who provides free samples and then stops.

remram 3y ago

I definitely would, and I have received such warning from more professional providers. Even my local grocery store sends an email when canceling tasting and marketing events. I don't know why you think otherwise. Netlify's own EULA states (https://www.netlify.com/pdf/self-serve-subscription-agreement.pdf/ https://www.netlify.com/pdf/self-serve-subscription-agreemen...): > While we always make an effort to communicate clearly and well in advance if we decide a particular website project is not a good fit for our Free Usage Tier, we reserve the right to disable or remove any website project on Netlify’s Free Usage Tier without notice at our sole discretion so every free user should very much expect "an effort to communicate clearly and well in advance". They were explicitly told they should.

horsawlarway 3y ago
See - I read that exact same message, and applying my "contract legalese" filter I come away with the utter opposite opinion. "we reserve the right to disable or remove any website project on Netlify’s Free Usage Tier without notice at our sole discretion" That's the promise. Full stop. Everything else is filler words to make that seem more palatable to people. You are being misled because you are not reading the contract as "a list of things netlify MUST do". Making assumptions based on anything else is folly - you are trusting a commercial entity to be "nice" and that's a really, really bad thing to trust them to do.
- remram 3y ago
  No one is saying they broke the law, just that it's very unprofessional and should be taken as a sign of unreliability, in stark contrast to someone who provides free samples and then stops.