Glitch to end app hosting and user profiles on July 8

Glitch has announced that it is ending app hosting and user profiles on July 8, in response to changing market dynamics and extensive abuse problems that have increased operational costs. The news comes directly from the platform’s CEO, Anil Dash, who acknowledged the platform’s role in the developer ecosystem. "So with so many good options for easily making and running apps, Glitch’s legacy architecture hasn’t been providing something uniquely valuable to the developer ecosystem at this point," reads the announcement from Dash. The CEO notes that the focus will be "on serving our developer community where we can be most valuable." Project hosting and user profiles will be shut down on July 8 but users will have access to the dashboard until the end of the year, allowing them to download the code for projects. Dash says that a new feature will allow setting up redirects for a project's subdomains so the URLs will still work. These redirects are guaranteed to remain functional unt ... Read full article.