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0 pointsremram2y ago0 comments

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-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.

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horsawlarway2y ago· 1 in thread

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.

remramOP2y 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.

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