[throwaway74566]

Heya, we deprecated pretty loudly! We made a post on the community forum [0] and we sent an email to all active accounts saying the following:

> The first improvement we're excited to announce is that the $5 Hobby plan is no more. We're replacing it with a very simple Pay As You Go plan. On this plan there's no more upfront $5 charge and no minimum monthly commitment. You only pay for what you use. If you don't use anything for a given month you pay $0. You still need a credit card on file to prevent abuse. But your card is only charged if you use the service.

[0]: https://community.fly.io/t/fresh-produce-pay-as-you-go-plan/...

[d-z-m]

If you're going to stand behind your product, I'm not sure posting with a throwaway sends the strongest message.

[tptacek]

If anyone's ever wondering how carefully choreographed our HN presence is, please refer them directly to this subthread, which, for posterity's sake, I will note is occurring on the morning of July 4.

[jfentflyio]

Sorry, didn’t intend for throwaway to come across as not standing behind the product.

I wrote the community forum announcement and was one of the people that worked on implementing our PAYG plan. I just wanted to clarify that we didn’t deprecate silently, so I quickly created an account to do so.

Apologies for any confusion this caused!

[dathinab]

random side note, it would be nice if the region selector for regional pricing would display human readable region labels in addition to 3 letter acronyms.

[fooey]

yeah, it's basically impossible to compare regions right now

they need a table that's a human readable name and an average/range for the cost modifier as compared to the baseline

[Aeolun]

Why a throwaway?

[itake]

I didn’t get this email. I don’t check the forums for announcements

[ungamedplayer]

I got three correspondence from fly on this matter when it happened. They absolutely were transparent and clear about it.

[davidgl]

Same