>If Kurt is willing to (gracefully, as you said) crush someone's side project over a rude tweet, why should Fly be trusted with a potential business?
To clarify, when I said "gracefully," I meant "exit within a grace period," as opposed to "delete an account with zero notice."
And I don't read the exchange as Kurt crushing anyone's project as much as telling them to go elsewhere on their own if they won't meet Fly's expectations for professional conduct.
But I do think the fact that it's a side project makes it a more minor issue. It would be higher-stakes if someone had built their business' entire infrastructure on Fly and then Kurt asked them to leave. I'm assuming a principal engineer at Microsoft isn't putting anything serious on Fly, so it seems like the stakes were just a couple hours of Alex's time to migrate.
>Would you trust running any servers required for TinyPilot on Fly.io after that exchange, running the risk that if Kurt doesn't like one of your tweets, he (gracefully) will ask you to move to a new platform?
TinyPilot's critical servers actually do run on Fly.
The exchange doesn't make me nervous because I don't harass my critical vendors, especially not in public. I have vendors that I critique, but I try to do it professionally and respectfully. I think if I behave unprofessionally toward my vendors, then they're within their rights to drop me as a client.
Again, I'm assuming that what Alex deleted was something inappropriate. It sounds like your memory was that Alex said something benign. If Alex truly was critiquing Fly respectfully and Kurt responded by asking him to leave the platform, that would give me pause, but I'm not seeing evidence that was the case.
To clarify, when I said "gracefully," I meant "exit within a grace period," as opposed to "delete an account with zero notice."
And I don't read the exchange as Kurt crushing anyone's project as much as telling them to go elsewhere on their own if they won't meet Fly's expectations for professional conduct.
But I do think the fact that it's a side project makes it a more minor issue. It would be higher-stakes if someone had built their business' entire infrastructure on Fly and then Kurt asked them to leave. I'm assuming a principal engineer at Microsoft isn't putting anything serious on Fly, so it seems like the stakes were just a couple hours of Alex's time to migrate.
>Would you trust running any servers required for TinyPilot on Fly.io after that exchange, running the risk that if Kurt doesn't like one of your tweets, he (gracefully) will ask you to move to a new platform?
TinyPilot's critical servers actually do run on Fly.
The exchange doesn't make me nervous because I don't harass my critical vendors, especially not in public. I have vendors that I critique, but I try to do it professionally and respectfully. I think if I behave unprofessionally toward my vendors, then they're within their rights to drop me as a client.
Again, I'm assuming that what Alex deleted was something inappropriate. It sounds like your memory was that Alex said something benign. If Alex truly was critiquing Fly respectfully and Kurt responded by asking him to leave the platform, that would give me pause, but I'm not seeing evidence that was the case.