The reason for it
With the upcoming Artifact Storage there'll be a lot of people accessing the database at the same time. Bandwidth usage and database transaction limits may be reached too quickly.
If that happens the options are to restrict how many slots are available to people, but for those who are heavy users and want to have more slots it may be interesting to have the option for a premium account.
How to implement it
People already need to make accounts to access their saved builds and saved artifacts, so it's simply a matter of giving a free or premium status to these accounts.
The important thing is to lay down an infrastructure to automate this process as it would otherwise be quite tedious to manually set peoples accounts to premium. As well as the wait time that would come up for people.
The reason for it With the upcoming Artifact Storage there'll be a lot of people accessing the database at the same time. Bandwidth usage and database transaction limits may be reached too quickly. If that happens the options are to restrict how many slots are available to people, but for those who are heavy users and want to have more slots it may be interesting to have the option for a premium account.
How to implement it People already need to make accounts to access their saved builds and saved artifacts, so it's simply a matter of giving a free or premium status to these accounts.
The important thing is to lay down an infrastructure to automate this process as it would otherwise be quite tedious to manually set peoples accounts to premium. As well as the wait time that would come up for people.
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