We need to have some regulation for such behavior where, if a provider can arbitrarily suspend an account without any recourse, they can’t charge any money to any customer. If they try to weasel away by hiding the fine print “please don’t use our service for critical activities..”, then they must not have any kind of premium model or must compensate the person affected if can be proven with 100-200x of 10 years worth of what the customer pays monthly.
However, with the tech wild west, anything goes and I’ll continue to be pipe dreaming.
I'd like it to not be arbitrary and have an appeal process, but that can still completely wreck someone financially if they needed the tool in the short term. The real solution is we need to stop accepting permanent rentals for tools.
Paying for software needs to mean a permanent copy I can run locally, or I don't pay. Creating a file needs to mean I can export an open format, or I don't build with it.
Basically this. This is a constantly recurring story if you watch HN long enough. All these amazing free tools and services are liabilities. Use them with caution and have contingencies.
Cloud does not mean safe. It means available everywhere. If I'm being snarky, it means extra available to 10 year old script kiddies who can erase your crap on a lark.
B) You gave your data to somebody else's cloud rather than buying local software.
Sorry. No sympathy. Perhaps everybody shouldn't have anointed Figma as king and supported some alternatives that ran locally.
How many times does this have to repeat before people learn?
However, with the tech wild west, anything goes and I’ll continue to be pipe dreaming.