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sergiotapia on July 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't...

This could have been easily mitigated with a giant red ugly banner "YOUR DATA WILL BE LOST IN X DAYS. MIGRATE NOW".

Three emails clearly wasn't enough right? Now their name is in the dumps, customers are pissed and my only exposure to influxdb is a negative one.

I hope other saas guys learn this very expensive lesson.

radiator on July 10, 2023 | [–]

According to other comments, apparently there was a banner, but it was tiny and green instead. Pure genious.

sergiotapia on July 10, 2023 | | [–]

Amazing

detuur on July 10, 2023 | [–]

Why would you even need to log in if your service is running swimmingly? I run some things off of Backblaze and I haven't seen their console in over 2 years.

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