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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

because there are overdue hosting payments

oops.

Although it's quite an asshole move by discourse to communicate this so openly.

I wouldn't want to have a community hosted there when a forgotten expired credit card or something would immediately cause this message to show

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Although it’s quite an asshole move by discourse to communicate this so openly.

Actually no. If your customers are assholes, threat them as such.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

depends. Continue to not pay? Absolutely. One missed payment that could have easily have been a simple fuckup somewhere? No

[–] Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m not sure if the issue lies on Discourse. The software itself is FOSS.

AFAIK I didn’t saw any limitation on the on-prem edition, so I don’t get it why a company like Mozilla doesn’t have the resources to handle that.

And, even if they are using Discourse’s Cloud infrastructure, it’s not common for services to reach the end of payment without sending a ton of warnings.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... Are you trying to steal my handle or what?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope it's just an error and not actually them shutting them down

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

I assume there's just some payment fuckup somewhere. it happens