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.

See https://budibase.com/blog/updates/pricing-v3/

  • absolutesantaja@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In case anyone from Budibase ever sees this, I did want to say that I understand needing to make money from what you do. I don’t have a problem with open source projects having an enterprise version with additional features as long as they don’t consider basic SSO to be an enterprise feature.

    Lots of other features like auditing, group and role based access controls, commercial database drivers for Oracle and others, high availability, multi user collaboration, rebranding, live deployments, project management features, etc make sense being enterprise only features.

    If your self hosting and need all that other stuff then you probably should be paying for the software. Plenty of other projects like GitLab and Coder work this way and the open source version isn’t limited in a way that affects hobbyist.

    Budibase advertised their free/oss version as being unlimited users since the very beginning and it’s a real stab in the back for anyone who’s contributed to the project.

  • opensrcdev@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Get rid of Budibase and use Windmill.dev instead. Back when I evaluated Budibase, it was horribly buggy and unusable. Windmill.dev is full-featured, self-hosted, is pretty darn stable, and AFAIK doesn’t have these user limitations.

  • subven1@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m using the Budibase community plan, and my account has over 20 users. What is going to happen to my account and users?

    - You will not be able to add new users (if you’re over the 20 user limit). To add new users, you will need to upgrade to a paid plan.

    Maybe you are able to create a bunch of dummy users now (like 50 ghost accounts with various emails) and if you want to add a new user, you just edit one of the already created ghost accounts. Is that an option? Otherwise look out for alternatives or pay the price.

  • Khargara@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, it was predictable because they changed their pricing several times this year. With REI3 you will never face such limitations for the free version.

  • violet-crayola@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Its one of those firebase clones?
    We used one called directus and they just changed license to BSL not allowing us to use it anymore.
    Typical - build up the sheeple base that trust you then start shaving the sheep

    • aceton@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      changed license to BSL not allowing us to use it

      due to the $5 million limit? or what’s the catch?

  • softwarebuyer2015@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i looked into a few of these.

    some names from memory : supabase, baserow, nocodb, ragic, saltcorn.

    can’t immediately swear which are self hostable.

    • absolutesantaja@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They’re not really the same thing. Supabase is a replacement for Firebase but really it provides is the back end and until recently was not real friendly to self host securely. Baserow and Nocodb are more like shared excel sheets and don’t really support building out a fully functional site. Ragic appears to be commercial only. I need to evaluate saltcorn. I’m thinking about putting together a page comparing all of them.

  • absolutesantaja@alien.topOPBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Several folks have asked why not just fork it? And I think that would be a great idea however like most of these projects, it’s not fully open source and thus all the source code isn’t available. Large parts of what makes the app function are only available as already packaged libraries in npm. All of that would have to be deciphered and re-written.

  • aceton@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Going through the comments and alternatives, seems like the only option without limits on users if you want to use openid/oath SSO is Directus. Is that it? :/

  • liotier@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Then it is not “OSS Self Hosted”… Thank them for the clarification !