What would you suggest they do to reduce demand? (This is a serious question btw)

They could make people pay for stuff that is free right now.

And yet: GitHub is also getting called greedy and horrible for moving to usage based billing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357

Getting $5000 worth of product essentially free and then being told to pay is not enshittification.

Another take: perhaps they shouldn't have been pricing it at that point if they weren't capable of actually delivering.

It absolutely is. Loss leading is their fault and anticompetitive.

it's not worth $5000 if people are not willing to pay that amount for it

The cost for AI companies might be $5000 but the "essentially free" could be close to the limit of what people are willing to spend. If that's the case then enshittification will continue and/or many AI companies will never be profitable.

If the vendor says it's worth $200, then it's worth at most $200 unless it's a preclude to the predatory bait&switch or undercutting the normal market.

It's predatory pricing.

We have seen this before. Companies using VC money to take over the market and then increase prices. In the end, we're worse off without these scumbags but some will still sing that we got free service do it's bot enshitification.

The Spotify hate is so forced. Everyone's complaints boil down to "the UX doesn't work exactly like I want". I find these changes mildly annoying like anyone else, but Spotify is miles ahead of everyone else in terms of discovery and it's not even close. It's not perfect but no service is.

It's really not. The UX changes are like coming home every day and finding your cupboards have been totally rearranged, the fridge is now outside, and the dishwasher is in the bedroom. The next day, the dishwasher is in the garden, and your cups are in the bin.

I left years ago when their "discoverability" started forcing random Nordic music into my Spotify Weekly. Support basically told me to accept it or go away, so I did, and never looked back.

I loved knots, lashings, plaits, braids, and splices as a kid, this really brought me back.

also this has been discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=animatedknots.com

If GDP was not increasing, every business transaction is a zero sum game. No one wants to live in that world.

Most applications don't have a billion users

I would if answers came with age

They are moving everything to azure to be able to scale so I'm guessing they are going through growing pains.

But if these issues continue for more than a couple months I could see organizations looking more and more into other options, but let's be honest, everyone knows and uses GitHub so they'd really have to mess things up for more than a fraction of their user base to move away

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

I have tried a lot of breathwork techniques lately and Buteyko is very good. One thing I always tell people that sit and slouch a lot is that your diaphragm is probably very tight (the same way your quads/hamstrings/etc can get tight). breathing exercises are very good for loosening it up, which, at least for me, have had a very positive impact on my health and wellbeing.

It’s also possible that something is good for you for some pretty unexpected reasons.