Comment by 1e1a

Replit used to be a great platform for sharing code in a way which made it easy for anyone to run or modify. It was great for students, and kids learning to code. But then, in 2024, they removed all social features, and reduced the maximum number of repls for free users from practically unlimited to 3. I stopped using it after this, and shortly after, they implemented a strict ratelimit for downloading your own repls. I'm now taking a look at Replit for the first time in a while, and it looks like they completely redid their interface: Their whole web IDE appears to be gone or vastly simplified, and it seems like half of of everything I click on fails with error 429, after just a tiny bit of looking around. Their old IDE that functioned as a code editor, and gave you basic tools such as a file tree viewer, is no more. Replit turned an awesome product into a glorified LLM chat which is vastly dysfunctional for any sort of hand coding.