Clearly it does have something to do with fly.io considering fly is and has been pushing for litefs/stream as the ideal database solution for fly users. It seems reasonable that readers would compare it to other fly offerings.
We have... never done that? Like ever? LiteFS is interesting for some read-heavy use cases, especially for people who are doing especially edge-deployed things, but most people who use databases here use Postgres. We actually had a managed LiteFS product --- LiteFS Cloud --- and we sunset it, like over a year ago. We have a large team working on Managed Postgres. We do not have a big SQLite team.
People sometimes have a hard time with the idea that we write about things because they are interesting to us, and for no other reason. That's also 60-70% of why Ben does what he does on Litestream.
I’m sorry. I think that I, and probably others, have misinterpreted it. Between Ben’s writings on the fly blog and litefs cloud it seemed like that was the case. I didn’t realize it had been discontinued.
Neither LiteFS nor Litestream (obviously) have been discontinued. They're both open source projects, and were both carefully designed not to depend on Fly.io to work.
