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Airtable has a hard limit of 50,000 records across all tables in a base though.

If those records could have an arbitrary/large number of fields, that would suffice for our foreseeable needs. We're at ~6,000 individual entries at the moment and do not expect a 10x jump at this time. Our efforts now center on updates to and removals from our public map.

Airtable-wise, I'm parroting our devs on the subject. We had perpetual/nascent plans for an Airtable migration (and did so when FindTheMakers came to life) which have been tabled for now. We believe we'll make it to sunset on Sheets, but just barely.

That seems like a crazy low limit compared to the traditional spreadsheets I'm used to.

Is there some special meaning of "record" in their vernacular?

Airtable is closer to a database than a spreadsheet. Records are represented as rows in their default grid view, but there are other views available. They can also be retrieved as JSON objects through the API that Airtable automatically generate for you.

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