This is a real bummer, particularly as we started using budibase for our volunteer-run organization back in the spring specifically because the BB people promoted it as being a less-restrictive alternative to all the other low-code app builders. In fact, having unlimited users was specifically mentioned here on reddit by a co-founder a mere 7 months ago!
It's also a drag because as nice as I think the platform is, it's still buggy; it comes with the OSS territory and was tolerable because updates were relatively quick in coming, but now we can't update 🤷♂️.
I get that these companies need to make money but they benefit from an open-source community and the least they can do is make the self-hosted versions relatively open. Putting enterprise-level features behind a paywall is all well and good but limiting user count on a self-hosted version is very uncool, particularly given the pricing. There's just a huge gap in coverage here... clearly we're not the only non-profit/volunteer organization using the platform. We don't need enterprise features, but we have more than 20 people who need to use the app we built. It's a crazy expectation that small orgs start paying $150+/month for the platform just to get more than 20 users on a self-hosted install.
This is a real bummer, particularly as we started using budibase for our volunteer-run organization back in the spring specifically because the BB people promoted it as being a less-restrictive alternative to all the other low-code app builders. In fact, having unlimited users was specifically mentioned here on reddit by a co-founder a mere 7 months ago!
It's also a drag because as nice as I think the platform is, it's still buggy; it comes with the OSS territory and was tolerable because updates were relatively quick in coming, but now we can't update 🤷♂️.
I get that these companies need to make money but they benefit from an open-source community and the least they can do is make the self-hosted versions relatively open. Putting enterprise-level features behind a paywall is all well and good but limiting user count on a self-hosted version is very uncool, particularly given the pricing. There's just a huge gap in coverage here... clearly we're not the only non-profit/volunteer organization using the platform. We don't need enterprise features, but we have more than 20 people who need to use the app we built. It's a crazy expectation that small orgs start paying $150+/month for the platform just to get more than 20 users on a self-hosted install.