Well while I use Tarsnap for a very small amount of data (due to pricing) and I quite like Tarsnap for my use-case scenario, your question might have been downvoted due to two reasons:
- your comment was a very valid question but rather quip-like, offhanded, seemed off etc etc. I mean something like that…
There’s also the fact that he has quite publicly been repeatedly nagged to raise his prices by another “HN darling” and he has been resistant to it. It’s actually quite an interesting read that covers a lot of the things brought up in this discussion:
To be fair, any backup service should probably best have model of "pay per length of backup stored".
If I want to store my 100GB of data now, and I want to have it stored for a year, I want to pay for that year's worth of storage of 100GB of data now and not worry about any money or account problems for that bit of data.
But basically what he suggests is turning Tarsnap into yet another SaaS offering I wouldn't give a second glance to. The screenhot of his proposal for the new entry page says... nothing.
Which is probably okay if you want to pivot from a geek-ish service to one that geeks don't use, of course. Does the owner want that?
If it's the latter, then reader quality is quite screwed up in here trying to make people endorse crazy pricing because he's some known guy around here.
Oh dear. It’s an HN thing. I have had brushes with it only once or twice across various accounts across years but it’s very much an HN thing.
Whenever you see an utterly useless quip (or sometimes even name calling or offensive words) being heavily upvoted you should know that some alpha HNer has arrived on the scene :)
But to be honest I have never seen author Tarsnap engage in such privileged gentlemanly d-baggery. He is quite cool, as they say it.
Anyway I just ignore it and move on. But again OP could have worded the question better. I mean no matter how good or bad you want to feel about it — it’s just a vc run anon forum and just another forum.
I definitely could have worded it better, but it's a little crazy how different the discourse is seen when the subject of a discussion is something well-liked by HN vs hated.
- your comment was a very valid question but rather quip-like, offhanded, seemed off etc etc. I mean something like that…
- Tarsnap is an hn darling
If I have to pick one I think it’s the latter :)