@mrapplegate@philhawksworth ohhh interesting! I'll take a look — I’m setting the loading strategy (mostly) manually on images. A lot of what I'm loading is inside of a reusable media grid component that I set on a per component basis.
Moving my websites from #Netlify to a traditional (and local to me) small legit non-VC business brought a lot of positive vibes, and a realisation.
Once again, Silicon Valley had convinced me that convenience should be the path to do more tasks in less time. As in growth at all costs.
But designing for the web is not like using a machine to wash the laundry. It’s more like cooking: takes knowledge, experience, a bit of artistry. Also, it takes the right amount of time.
So I'm going to assume Netlify isn't going to suddenly charge me the cost of a small house if something goes awry and stick with them for the time being.
Also ooo, they're launching a new shiny. Blobs? Can I finally code up a working hit counter?
I wrote a blog post about my move from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages and how I use caching with GitHub Actions to speed up my Eleventy build step from over 14 minutes to just 30 seconds.
Because of the Netlify controversy this week, I’m starting to migrate some of my websites to regular ol' shared web hosting at Porkbun for the time being. It probably won't be a permanent change, but it's a step towards reducing my reliance on VC-backed third-party services that have extreme amounts vendor lock-in.
#netlify doesn’t send a confirmation email (or even show a success page!) when you delete your account. Fucking yikes.
If someone got access to your account, they could delete it and you wouldn’t find out until later!
There’s no record that you deleted your account, e.g. in the event that they keep billing you and you need to prove you don’t have an account there anymore
I suspect the #netlify people are happy that every free tier site owner is dropping them like a hot potato. No need for slow enshittification and shutting down your free tier when you can just scare all those freeloaders off with bankruptcy and penury.
Can anyone working at #Netlify comment on the current discourse regarding small hobbyists with static sites having to unexpectedly deal with huge, sudden bills?
Thinking of moving away from Netlify because of this, my current plan includes 1TB/month in bandwidth and I use about 400MB per month of that, but in a large attack that could get used up.
Would feel much safer with a service that 503s the site with too much traffic. I don't really need 99.999% uptime anyway.
@gustav
appearing on hacker.news upped its priority from yes we really should do something about that one day to: shit - the CEO needs to make a statement right now.
I do use several useful Netlify utilities though like the rewrites and forms and build hooks - I'm sure there are ways to do these without Netlify, but...