I actually wrote a long rant yesterday but being a genuine Replit fanboy decided to hold my tongue until I gave it more time today but it just really does suck.
I have never had such a bad experience with Replit as I’ve had trying to do the absolute simplest of tweaks on a finished (and very simple) app.
The latest? Adding a toggle switch but realising it wasn’t saving the changed state to the DB. Why? And I quote: “The fields are completely missing from the backend routes — they’re never being saved to the DB. Let me look at the update route:”
It hadn’t even created the paths to DB!
You guys really have to do better.
TFS
Yeah, I’m at a standstill until they fix or rollback. I sucks right now. This happened between Agent 2 and 3, took them about two weeks to get all the bugs worked out before the agent started feeling like normal again. Ugh.
Biggest issue is they need to keep the previous version of the model live until the new one gets its wings, they have the feedback here, on Reddit and I’m sure in their support systems. It’s really horribly managed rollouts and it has be getting me stopping work for weeks at a time while the sort it out.
Get accustomed to? Nah mate. I love (loved?) Replit but I’ve been in the process of moving over to Claude Code (Desktop) and Railway for deployment and to be honest it’s in another league.
The writing was on the wall for me when:
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I realised they were sending out marketing emails to people using Replit’s built-in authorisation. (And were supposedly denying they ever actually did that, despite literally calling their emails “marketing emails” when unsubscribing)
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When I saw that they were advertising a (supposedly) more community-focused forum with company participation but that was only if you upgraded to Pro. Which, call me sceptical, but considering their nearly utter non-existence here I highly highly doubt anyone will see happening. Community engagement is something that comes naturally to companies that actually want to engage with their customers/community something they showed at complete lack of want to do here.
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There’s a few other niggles (like Agent 4 sucking balls) but I’m not going to nitpick.
I’ll keep my subscription out of nostalgia and a real desire to see Replit continue to innovate. I am sincerely thankful that it was my gateway into “development” and due to experimenting with AI-builds here I’ve then gone to research what would be my natural progression in the field. Who knows where to next, right?
But yea, ho hum!
TFS
I am from the USA but that shouldn’t be the reason you’re either sold or not sold when discussing an opinion! 
While were on the subject of Agent 4? And now at the cross-roads for sure. Its not been a good Replit production week. Explicit instructions ignored… Come onto the Community for a sniff around.
I’m on my way out - I just signed up for Claude Max and got a railway account, setup some old trashcan macs for database server and redundancy - over it. I’m paying 10x for convenience, its not worth it anymore.
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