I bet some greedy managers thought that by closing the open-source organizations everybody will start to pay them and they will make a lot of money. 420 USD per year witch is 35 USD per month is a lot, with that kind of money you can host a pretty beefy server to serve those containers yourself.
It would probably be good to start hosting these on more than one service. It sounds like quay.io is more than willing to work with this, and ghcr.io is an obvious choice.
This was long-time coming but the convenience made us ignore the signs.
Personally it’s not a huge sacrifice to change image names and prepend the domain to them but I know that many people will be caught off-guard and there will be a lot of breakage. Sad.
The Docker Free Team subscription was deprecated in part because it was poorly targeted. In particular, it didn’t serve the open source audience as well as our recently updated Docker-Sponsored Open Source program, the latter offering benefits that exceed those of the deprecated Free Team plan.
We’d also like to clarify that public images will only be removed from Docker Hub if their maintainer decides to delete them. We’re sorry that our initial communications failed to make this clear.
We apologize again for the poor communication and execution surrounding this deprecation and promise to continue to listen to community feedback.
Yeah. Not super helpful, in the end, because the team accounts (which may not be in use by the hex.pm account) are still going to be unavailable for image maintenance.