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.
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.