Just received the email over the weekend but if your self hosting Budibase you will soon be limited to 20 users even on the open source version. This is very unfortunate for me because I was running a bunch of volunteer community projects on there and really liked how they didn’t hide SSO behind a paywall. Not everyone using apps like these are companies trying to save money and having to pay $5 per user isn’t feasible for volunteer projects that don’t have any money to begin with.
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.