Summary: We’ve spent the last few days reading and listening to the community’s feedback. This post summarizes the adjustments we’re making in response to what we’ve learned. We’re making the key activities crucial to scaling your app on Bubble cost fewer WUs than originally planned by 50–99% …

“Fair Price” by definition means fair for all parties, which is not the case here. The problem is, that market dynamics tend to place excessive weighting on popularity or rarity of a product… meaning a price often ends up being higher than is reasonable. Bubble leverages this to their favour, knowi…

Sadly, I think hope is going to lose here. It clearly hasn’t been doing us any favours so far. All I can hope for is that enough people leave bubble that they realise their catastrophic error, before it’s too late to correct. Bubble management has a lot to answer for on this entire saga.

[image] solo_coffee_dev: Bubble leverages this to their favour, knowing there isn’t a lot of comparable alternatives out there …yet.

There was a poor communication strategy for implementing new prices, as someone commented in the forum: “they put the cart before the horse”. Hopefully, Bubble will evaluate and make corrections that receive greater approval from the community.

To be pedant: noodle announced a plan to publish their code under open source licenses. No real code has been published yet. Going open source is different from telling you want to go open source at some point.

In case you missed recent reply from Josh about new pricing model and so on: [image] Monthly Community Update -- June 2023 Announcements Hi Lizzie, to be very clear, we do not have any plans to further change the way WU is calculated right now. After we first announced WU,…

Would be willing to pay a lot just for a one time export tbh, even if it was without the editor. Anything to move my project off of bubble since its either that or shut it down come 2024 when the pricing change becomes forced.

I found the response from Josh very welcoming. He pointedly explained why the pricing changes were implemented, making it clearer the way Bubble is thinking and expecting to expand and improve. Smart money was placed on bet to stay on legacy plan (or increase to higher legacy if expected need withi…

I had something sassy written but i didn’t want to hurt the anyone else’s feelings. @boston85719 It was a tough pill to swallow but it was kind of expected. Good on Josh for being more transparent.

It is similar to my approach when I was dating. Honest and Open to allow others to make the best decisions for themselves. Tell others exactly what you are doing and why so they know how to best proceed according to their own needs/desires and have their expectations set properly.

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In case you missed recent reply from Josh about new pricing model and so on:

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