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Comment by ryanmccullagh | Hacker News Reader

If Heroku was clear about timelines, I think it's unfair for you to be upset.

    1. You're not paying for the resource.
    2. They provided sufficient notification for you to plan

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They could have easily sent an email. As far as I'm aware, I would have only seen it if I logged into the dashboard, however, my app works completely fine and I have no need to do this unless it stops working, which it just did tonight, due to the database being deleted.

Just seems like bad practice for them to not scream test this first. Disable the databases for 48 hours, enable them for a week, then delete them. That would give people the same alerts as randomly deleting it but allow them to gracefully recover.

Yeah, why not go with at least a soft deletion first? Allow people to transfer to a paid Dyno for up to a month after the change happens or something.

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