• @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    52 days ago

    Thank you. Any reason why they wouldn’t make it more apparent from their homepage? I’m always interested in self-hosted solutions, and even I ducked out of there after seeing only subscription plans being offered.

    • Ulrich
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      21 day ago

      …why would they? Self-hosting loses them business.

      • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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        11 day ago

        Has that killed Bitwarden yet? There are many self-hosted projects that also have paid options.

        I’d be happy with a paid (one-time fee) license for a self-hosted option with any software. Subscriptions should only be paying for data/storage, and if that’s offloaded to the customer’s local hardware, there’s no need to keep them on a subscription.

        Especially for a product that’s privacy-first, that really should include a self-hosted option (paid or otherwise).

        • Ulrich
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          11 day ago

          I didn’t say anything about “killing”.

          • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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            11 day ago

            You implied that it would hurt business, and that really doesn’t seem to be the case for other projects using a self-hosted/subscription business model.

            If you meant something else, then I guess I misunderstood. No harm, no foul.

                • Ulrich
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                  11 day ago

                  Maybe not. That’s my best guess as to why they wouldn’t advertise it on the homepage.

    • @pipes@sh.itjust.works
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      82 days ago

      A software’s website and docs are very telling, aren’t they? It’s like a cultural thing from the creators, some open source software will always be more business oriented, others are more helpful towards homelab /self-hosting users.