Free Weebly Legacy Plans With Custom Domains Are Being Discontinued. Now Pay Up. (weebly.com) 23
This is an official notification from the Weebly account team in regards to the account under this email address. You currently have a free Weebly website published on a custom domain (or vanity URL) and are not subscribed to a paid Weebly hosting plan. As of March 28, 2023, sites connected to custom domains are required to have a Weebly hosting service plan to remain published. What does this mean for you? To keep your site published on a custom domain, you will need to purchase a paid Weebly service plan subscription. If you take no action and choose to remain on a free Weebly plan, your account information and all associated site content will remain intact and accessible to you within Editor, but your site will be unpublished on March 28, 2023 and will no longer be visible to visitors or connected to your custom domain. You will need to republish your site on a free Weebly subdomain to make it publicly visible again (ex: my-name.weebly.com).
Message received. Pay up or else.
Greed is disgusting. (Score:1)
Entitlement is also disgusting. Nobody deserves free website hosting any more than anyone deserves free beer.
Everything comes at a labor cost. It is reasonable to expect people to pay for that cost in order to receive the goods or services.
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Entitlement is also disgusting. Nobody deserves free website hosting any more than anyone deserves free beer.
Everything comes at a labor cost. It is reasonable to expect people to pay for that cost in order to receive the goods or services.
For the nonprofit I am the CEO of, I'm constantly answering questions and even demands that we do one of the freebie sites. Of course the same people want all of the bells and whistles of premium website hosting.
I tell them to duplicate our site on a test freebie site like Weebly.
1. Suddenly it's no longer free.
2. But they never get that far.
Then they go away. Muttering how hard it is.
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The business model of "Give things away for free and someday, somehow, we will magically figure out a way to make money" is stupid and doesn't work.
It might work in corner cases. It worked well for free email providers (it's also a kind of hosting and many small businesses rely on free email accounts and free web storage for their daily activity). The free email offers profit from user profiling and ad placement. One could imagine that free hosting could be funded by ad injection, or asking exclusivity of ad content from them rather than contracting ads from, say, google.
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Entitlement is also disgusting. Nobody deserves free website hosting any more than anyone deserves free beer.
I hate it when a non-corporation gets something they do not deserve. It really just upsets me on a basal level.
I mean, okay yeah, it was offered to them and they accepted the offer, but presumably the offer was made in the hopes of being able to hold their domains hostage for pricey upsells, as the average customer has no idea they can buy the domain for less than $20/year. They have no right to ev
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Interesting FP, though negative and evidently not very productive... Were you going for Funny or just playing devil's advocate in some way I can't figure out?
Without looking at the replies (and not sure if I'll bother unless some are flagged Funny), the greed was on the other foot here. Weebly wasn't offering free accounts as any sort of entitlement. It was part of their plan to get big, but bigness per se is not always valuable. Remember GeoCities? (And I still have a free Tripod website that mostly works
Ok? (Score:2)
TANSTAAFL
Message received (Score:2)
Fuck you, I leave.
Re: Message received (Score:2)
Oh no! A customer that used our free services and never gave us any revenue is leaving, what will we do to keep our jobs?
I know, we'll focus on revenue producing clients!
So ... (Score:3)
Free Weebly wobbles and they *do* fall down.
[ For you youngsters: Weeble [wikipedia.org]. :-) ]
Free Weebly (Score:2)
As with Free Willy [wikipedia.org], sounds like a Sea World movie or porn video.
Re: Weebly is still claiming to be free (Score:2)
No, they're likely delighted if you use your own domain name as long as you PAY THEM FOR WEBHOSTING.
Re:Weebly .. WITH CUSTOM DOMAIN (Score:2)
They're basically aligned with Yahoo! web hosting and WordPress cloud hosting options. There's nothing major about this. It's just a reminder to the early adopters about the change in services for their free support.
Re: Weebly is still claiming to be free (Score:2)
(Checks calendar) It's not March 28th yet, so for now they are still offering free websites...
Oh No! Anyway... (Score:2)
Seriously, I don't know what I will do without the empty Weebly site that some SEO spammer created with my e-mail address 10 years ago!
So now (Score:2)
So now the bottom feeders have driven the inexpensive hosting businesses that charged enough to make it worthwhile without dirty tricks out of the market, they want to start charging.
Not that the decent inexpensive hosts weren't already driven out by even cheaper hosts that hold your domain hostage and other such tricks.