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by elxx 969 days ago
(Background: I'm currently using Fly for some hobby apps. I like it.)

It is still wildly unstable right now because they're basically still building the platform and figuring out how to run a business. Earlier this year there was a migration to their "Apps V2" platform [0] which was supposed to be simple but it was extremely poorly communicated which led to a lot of users hitting issues along the way and being forced to make forum posts to try and desperately figure out how to keep their production apps up. None of the migrations worked for me either, I didn't complain as a freeloader - but seeing the support requests from paying customers painted a really bad picture.

[0] https://community.fly.io/t/get-in-losers-were-getting-off-no...

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I lost data in the v2 migration with down time. their support (engineers?) are customer facing and unprofessional.
I still don't know what Fly Apps vs Fly Machines are and I stopped caring about their service as a result.