Goodbye, Glitch!

Thank you, Glitch! Everyone there made programming awesome. The code jams were a fun way to see how other people programmed, and I also got to meet some awesome people. It was always an honor to have the "glitch" in the URL. It also was great to read in the README the part that said "you built this with Glitch." I read that so many times.

Goodbye Glitch! I’ve been a user of Glitch since it was called Gomix, way back in 2016! It was maybe the easiest way to edit code and get an app or website online. It abstracted away the devops side, so you could ignore that if you wanted, and the remixing and sharing philosophies were hugely important. I found a lot of interesting people on twitter and bluesky through their Glitch apps. My biggest successes were “Harry Styles Heardle” and “Linkedin Besties”, both of which went viral on Tiktok, but I love all of my 190-ish apps, of which I’m migrating about 60 to live on new platforms.

Thank you glitch for everything

Glitch was my childhood (probably not the right thing to be doing as a kid, instead of going out and making friends) and seeing it shutdown is like when your parents take away that one teddy bear for washing and you never see it again. It hurts, but eventually you accept the pain and move onto other teddy bears. Jokes aside, it takes a lot of courage to admit that things aren’t working and end on a pleasant note, before the experience gets terrible for users and Glitch doesn’t have a unique reputation anymore.

glitch was like my first love - unfortunately they’re both over so im happy it happened. thanks for all the memories, tutorials, Twitch streams, and cool people.

This is heartbreaking. Glitch played a huge role in my programming journey back in middle and high schools, and now I’m entering my third year of studying computer science in university.

Met so many kind and brilliant people here (shoutout to @khalby786 @aboutdavid @javaarchive @EddiesTech) and staff (@jenn @tasha).

I send my best wishes to the team; Glitch will always hold a special place in my heart.

Thank you for all your provided. I used this in my k-12 and college classrooms and it was awesome to see all they created. I appreciate everyone that made this possible and wish you all the best on the next ventrue.

Glitch has been an incredible tool for my coding development. I don’t remember when I started, but I’ve loved Glitch forever. Thank you for such an amazing way to share, build, and experience the web in a way that no other place has given me. I remember the first (and only) CodeJam I participated in-- it was about bugs, and I spent multiple days straight coding it up for fun. It’s a very sad time seeing this happen, and I’m really gonna miss it. Glitch, thank you-- For everything.

Glitch used to be the best hosting platform I’ve ever experienced—free, powerful, and truly wonderful. It had a unique charm that made coding feel effortless. Now, with its absence, I can’t help but feel a sense of loss. Replit, CodeSandbox, and the rest just don’t compare. It’s a bittersweet reminder of what once was.

Hi Glitch, I don’t want you to leave, throughout my time of depression, I spent my time coding and developing websites, and you were the only one I used. You are easy, You don’t cost anything, You gave Joy, You gave Opportunity, and You gave Memories. You are more of a Perfect Person than most people will ever be, I just wish you could stay alive, maybe the cure could be a donation link, a subscription, idk, just anything, anything that could fix this. Please don’t leave me, please. I’d even be willing to pay a little subscription. I luv u, think about it, please, I believe there’s a solution, so please I beg. - Stay. With. Me. Pweeze?

Glitch was one of the best and easiest way to deploy fast and got me in to programming! Thanks Glitch!

I hosted several web-game forks and other various personal projects of mine on Glitch throughout the years. It’s a surreal feeling watching Glitch go away - feels like just yesterday I was 9 years old, screwing around with JavaScript like nobody’s business. If you do the math, you’ll realize that Glitch has been a big part of my life to this point. It sucks…it really sucks. It certainly won’t be easy to move on - especially in finding alternatives where they’ll inevitably be needed - but I’m sure I’ll live.

I understand why this decision was made, though, and I understand that the service life of Glitch has unfortunately run its course. All things do, and a decade is usually enough to do it in here in cyberspace. However, I cannot help but feel emotional as I watch one of the major foundations of my life’s work finally ride off into the sunset. It’s just one of those things, I guess.

Glitch has done me an incredible service over the 7 years I’ve spent on the platform, meeting the various needs I’ve had in that span of time. To the Glitch team I cannot be more thankful for the opportunity to do some of the crazy things I’ve done in these many years. Without Glitch, it simply could not have been done.

What I’ll do now? Nobody knows. What I do know is that Glitch will forever hold a special place in my heart as the place it all started. It’s been real - it’s been fun - hell, perhaps it really has been real fun. To greener pastures, I suppose. Farewell, Glitch. From the bottom of my heart (or what little remains thereof), thank you for everything.

Goodbye, Glitch. My friend introduced me to Glitch in 2023. I loved game scripting, and Glitch introduced me to web development for the very first time. It was enjoyable learning to develop my web projects by putting together pieces of code and formatting to see what they did almost instantly. Glitch has been my safe place on the internet for over 2 years now, and I sure will miss how easy it was. Now, I thank Glitch for their years of service and the convenience of not just me, but many others as well. Once again, and for the last time: Goodbye, Glitch 💓

Been a Glitch user since 2020 when I found it in a YouTube tutorial for making a Discord bot, and quickly became hooked on this incredible platform that let me make all the useless web projects I could think of. In lockdown I spent way too much time on this forum and the Discord server interacting with the cool people in the community, pretty bittersweet to see some of the names that I remember again now that the site is shutting down. I will always look back on Glitch with fond memories and gratitude for the passion for coding it sparked in me.. bye Glitch 🥲

I’ve been a glitch user since, checks api, 2018! I started out following a guide to run discord bots which is long since outdated now. Glitch was an awesome platform because it was so easy to get into. I could easily spin up a project and start coding without having to install anything, or know about how node worked. The ability to edit at the same time was kick ass and made it super easy to work with other when we didn’t know what git was. It had a super understanding community which helped me through my super dumb questions, and is probably what got me in the door to be the programmer I am today.

Even though I don’t use glitch these days (haven’t for a few years), it still holds a very special place in my heart, and I’m sad to see it go. Thank you glitch and the community for everything.

I’ve been a Glitch user since 2019. It had been my very first introduction to web development. From the very start, the community was nothing but helpful, kind, and simply fun. Glitch has 100% inspired countless amounts of people to continue computer science, from random projects and discord bots of lockdown to now much more. Thank you, Glitch, for inspiring me, and many others.

P.S. Glitch will always have a special place to me as I look at the many names that were once so active. How it brought developers together was like none other, and I doubt that there will ever be a replacement for it. Goodbye, Glitch.

Glitch was perfect for me as a budding developer. It was the best of the very few hosting sites accessible to me, and I have developed (pun intended) many fond memories over the 4-5 years I used this site. I’m really sad to see glitch end, and thankfully I’m able to keep the memory alive by downloading my many projects, completed or half-finished. Goodbye Glitch!!!

Back in the early days of me trying to program some websites, Lameplit was my pick. When they turned off their signature “Always On”, I started working more on Glitch. Now that Glitch is slowly and painfully ending too, I don’t know where to go. I guess it was great having my websites on the internet, but for now, free dynamic internet hosting that isn’t plain sketchy PHP hosters, is dead. Glitch was my love, like my second Lameplit. But it seems every great service I love ends in the 2020s, like Skype or Lameplit itself. Anyways, I won’t bother too much with this absolute poetry, I just want to say: rest in peace, Glitch. You will be missed.

Glitch can be used on mobile, updates as soon as you change one character in any of the files, and has an expandable list of files on a sidebar you can just skip through at any time without loading new pages to find them. GitHub is not like that. Make no mistake: you are simply incorrect in your blog-post where you say Glitch’s legacy architecture wasn’t providing something uniquely valuable to the development ecosystem. GitHub may enable me to host PHP files without breaking my website like last time I tried that on Glitch, but you can’t replace Glitch if you don’t adopt or pirate their architecture. Glitch isn’t perfect, but it is the best site-hosting service I have tried since S2JS, which wasn’t meeting my needs since the options for files you could have were very limited, and the UI was kind of jank. Moving to GitHub is going to be all four classifications of pain in the neck and both of my hands. I hope you fare very, VERY well

I’ve been a Glitch user since late 2019. Back then, I was just beginning to discover the world of programming. Then I stumbled upon Glitch, a beautifully designed platform that brought developers together in one place, allowing us to share our work and ideas freely. Though I haven’t used Glitch much in recent years, it played a meaningful role in my journey. It inspired me to keep building, to teach others, and to give back to the community. It’s bittersweet to see it go. But I’m truly grateful for the time I spent here, for the opportunity to learn, to create, and to be part of something special. Thank you for creating, supporting, and inspiring an entire generation of makers. Thank you, Glitch.

Been in here since '18. I remember when I started out, I wanted to try out making node apps, in particular a Discord bot for my own community(ies). This platform was the only one I found then that was friendly and safe enough for me and I don’t think there’s anything else close to it. I may have slowly stopped using it lately, but without it I probably would’ve had a hard time getting as interested in the Node ecosystem as I am now (and to an extent databasing…!) It hurts a little, not gonna lie, but I am grateful for all it has provided me in the years I was deep into learning, and to an extent even now.

Glitch helped me build several servers and other things! It is very sad to see such a great host go away