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        • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          11 days ago

          About a year ago, Canva tried to raise their prices significantly.

          I forget exactly, but I pay for an account and can have 5 people on my team. They said they would start charging for each team member or something like that.

          One person said their cot went up from like $100 to $600, maybe the numbers are off, but it’s close to how severe there increase was.

          There was so much backlash over it that they decided to keep the old pricing structure.

          • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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            11 days ago

            So they’re planning to hook people in with freebies then boil the frogs a little slower.

            • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              9 days ago

              So they’re planning to hook people in with freebies then boil the frogs a little slower.

              If you never pay a dime anyway, it’s kinda irrelevant how much the AI features cost, no?

              • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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                9 days ago

                Sometimes companies gradually reduce the usefulness of the free product to incentivize people to pay. They may do this.

    • danielton1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Honestly, this. This is exactly why people don’t trust Canva not to enshittify it. OnlyOffice is also owned by a company, but since it’s free as in freedom, people know they can trust it.