No longer do you have the ability to manage the cluster. Key things like users, groups, replication, policy, etc.

As I have recently began adopting minio in a more serious use case, getting features ripped out without notification is pretty harsh.

Obviously minio is free to do what they wish but it definitely makes me reconsider adoption of their technology.

Removal of features with no notification or explanation is really hurting the product and companys reputation. What says they dont break replication or enforce limits on cluster size or drive next?

What are other peoples thoughts?

Before: https://i.imgur.com/eTMYJ0W.png After: https://i.imgur.com/wBJlRA3.png

That is a massive change. Pointing to a commercial product of theirs and locking the conversation immediately is very off-putting.

I have several minio instances deployed to k8s for small to medium, and non-profit projects. Easy to deploy, no problems or outages, yet.

But anecdotally i remember multiple occasions, where a quick tour of the dashboard convinced peers, that minio was the right tool for the job.

From my point of view it is much more questionable, that they "dare" to advertise the paid version with a 96.000 USD p.a. "platform fee" plus additional cost if you use more than 400TB. Small fish need tools, too.