The CMS is rendered useless by the updating of tariff plans

Hello everyone,

First of all, Feel free to give your opinion on what you think of this change to keep this topic alive.

As you may know, WIX has introduced new limitations with its WIX Studio editors. These limitations are aimed directly at developers and web agencies, as they are intended to limit the launch of advanced and complex projects on WIX Studio. And beyond that, the new limitations pose problems of database slowdown, which will cause database response errors linked to index limitation, security vulnerabilities linked to secret reduction and arbitrary monthly limits, evolution problems for large-scale sites…

As a developer, we reported the problem, and below is a link to the article that summarizes some of WIX’s absurd and illogical new limits. Beyond this change, WIX thought it wise not to notify developers of these changes… So we found out for ourselves… They changed their pricing plans without any announcement (trying to make us swallow the pill discreetly)…

These limits are ridiculous, because the goal of WIX Studio is to open up to web agencies and freelancers to offer more possibilities for large projects, but on the other hand the pricing plans limit the development of complex projects, who thought of this wonderful idea in the WIX team… Not to mention the fact that when you make a request to the sales department for a custom pricing plan, you get no response…

To date, WIX says it’s working on a few things to change the pricing plans, but despite our various reminders, WIX refuses to inform us of its future update. Unfortunately, they don’t take into consideration that some of us base a large part of our work on the CMS, and therefore a large part of our income and projects.

Today, WIX is gradually losing the confidence of its developers! But that doesn’t seem to worry them.

If you’re a developer, WIX Studio isn’t for you at the moment. Until WIX changes its pricing plans for WIX Studio, we won’t be able to work with this platform as a developer, and so it has no interest in existing, given that it’s aimed at web agencies according to WIX’s own terms - see the paradox of this platform!

The other paradox is that I find myself obliged to write this article to try to get WIX to agree to communicate on its future action plan so that I can get organized in my projects and my fellow developers can have a clear answer to a simple question:

Do we need to change publishers for our projects, or will WIX make sure that its pricing plan evolves to allow developers to work and bring new customers to the platform?

The article below has achieved 1300 views, the fire is spreading, the longer WIX waits the more developers and potential customers they will lose…

Link to detailed problem article: https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/disappointed-with-recent-changes-to-wixdata

Feel free to give your opinion on what you think of this change to keep this topic alive.

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Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@Aaron_Whittington @shawnsroden

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Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@ninodatino @Jeffrey_Hard

Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@Ari_Bodaghee @jaiden

Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@rodolfoboscan911 @giri-zano

Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@rostan @loeiks

Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@Ventura @JessCK

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Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@AnthonyAllioo @Breakscape

Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@anthony-tony-b @bilonii

Developers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new pricing system:
@Council

@noahlovell @pamela Please pay attention to your wix partner accounts continually asking for a discussion to change the proposed CMS limits. They will hurt our businesses and clients’ businesses, forcing us to move to other platforms.

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Hey @Lucas_dev and @Breakscape!

Just to let you know I’ve already shared this topic with the team and seeking an update on where things stand.

I’ll keep you posted when I hear something :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the feedback, I hope the team in charge of the project will communicate soon as it’s getting really long for a request for information !

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Picking this back up. @noahlovell Any news? It’s been a month since the last response and still no updates

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Hey @JessCK!

Have you had a chance to read this announcement that was shared in the Studio Discord? - Discord

There is currently an ongoing trial that addresses some of the concerns with pricing and limits, such as Secrets, Monthly read & write data requests etc.

We are aiming to provide a more tailored solution to your needs, once the teams will review the impact of the trial, and we’ll communicate any changes transparently. :slight_smile:

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The discord link doesn’t work for me, as it says there is no text channel at that address.

This sounds like a significant update though, can you please post it somewhere on the forum here so people can read and discuss it?

I’m sure a lot of users would be interested to know all the information regarding this topic, so ensuring it’s on the forum and not hidden on Discord is probably more useful.

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@Breakscape Hey! I wanted to check back in. Were you able to open the Discord link?

Hi Pamela, unfortunately not, I still receive the ‘No Text Channels’ message.

We’re you able to add the information to the forum?

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@Breakscape Hmmm :confused: you should be able to join the server through this link - Wix Studio Community (it was in the Announcement channel on November 23rd)

In the meantime, here’s the outline of it:

We’re currently running a trial and looking into reducing the price of our highest tier plan, as well as removing some plan-based Velo limits:

  • Monthly read & write data requests
  • Dashboard pages

And aligning all plans to the highest tier on the following items:

  • Automatic and manual backups
  • Logging with Google operations
  • Secrets

While this trial shouldn’t affect your clients, we wanted to be transparent as you may come across this via new clients you interact with.

We are aiming to provide a more tailored solution to your needs. Once the teams review the impact of this, we’ll communicate any changes transparently to all Partners and users. :+1: