Prisma language server update adds in-editor advertisements

josh3736 · 2024-05-16T13:59:43

Opened my editor this morning to be greeted by a notification being abused to show an advertisement for Prisma's paid services.

I get it, money is no longer free and VCs want returns, so we've all gotta make a buck, but this is a breach of trust.

I really hate the idea that we're going to need adblock for our editors…

selbyk · 2024-05-16T17:42:17

Not to mention, the Prisma library itself is one of our biggest regrets. They support them now, but not until some version 5.* did it even support native SQL joins. Extendability is also a nightmare.

I'd think twice about falling for the great marketing around it.

22c · 2024-05-17T03:53:36

From the PR where this was discussed: https://github.com/prisma/language-tools/pull/1716

> Do [...] Respect the user's attention by only sending notifications when absolutely necessary

> Do [...] Add a Do not show again option for every notification

> Don't [...] Use for promotion

janpio@, the self-proclaimed Senior Product Manager @ Prisma, then locks onto the "Do not show again" section of the VSCode guidelines

> our default behavior, to only show the notification once

Seemingly ignoring the two other glaring guidelines informing them that this is a bad idea. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.