r/Directus

I'm just a hobbyist running a personal website I use to research Football and the license was deactivated. I can't deal with this anymore. I don't make any money off of this, I have zero plans to ever make money off of it.

I break down Football playbooks and provide a place where coaches can talk. I run everything off of my own server from my house.

I went with directus cause I wanted to own my data, host my own data, on my own hardware, but clearly it's being held hostage right now.

The only reason I gave Directus a chance after the license changes is cause I didn't want to go through the hassle of migrating my database.

i totally get wanting to get your money from people using your software to run business's, but this has become a headache for a hobbyist like myself.

I had a good medium size client, took me a while to get them. We started sketching a simple site a month ago, 2 users, nothing big. I updated directus and the client saw the licence issue.

NOTE: this site had no frontend, 2 users and barely any content.
The site wasn't even live. But somehow we "Exceeded the allowed usage in the Core plan"

The client called immediately and after I tried to explain the licence, they said "we think this is not for as, and this is too much of a issue for us to move forward. They didn't want to registerer the company for a "innovation grant" licence because it feels like a huge risk because the future cost might be massive they didn't really understand the complications around the licence.

I tried to explain that their site will never be that big it was just a huge friction for them.

I then I decided to create a licence to prove to the client this could be fine. Maybe they are overreacting. And then they saw the licence.

- DIRECTUS can revoke the licence at any time. Meaning a site clients invest can one day stop working because one reason or another? When they start using Ai for this, how many sites will get flagged? what kind of issues might we have in the future.

- The licence is valid for a year meaning what? we need to ReRegister every year.

- If you dont add a licence key every year you will be locked out of our CMS and data. By the looks of the warning I got.

There was just too many red flags for the client.
After this, it was over. The client terminated my contract and moved on.

I have to say that this is the most bizarre thing I have experienced in this industry. I regret investing so much time and money with my team to learn Directus and then promote it and sell it.

https://preview.redd.it/lhge9717sxhh1.png?width=1858&format=png&auto=webp&s=17cbd3704bf315efd16d234c86f2b854eba51d6a

https://preview.redd.it/gn3ctblhqxhh1.png?width=1984&format=png&auto=webp&s=679433b5e41fb50de6a0dffebfeea3ac2a44dbc4

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I am running Directus for a very small venue and suddenly I saw this license talk. I still run Directus 11 and the website isn't even in production yet — we're still finishing up details. Am I going to have to redo everything with a new CMS? I didn't understand properly what that means for people like us, self-hosting CMSs for small clients

(I mean, that's my first freelance client in over 5 years, so I'd say this is my first client)