A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
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A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
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Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#2Good (if legit)
Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#3As much as I want to side with the developers I think they are exposing themselves to legal repercussions and made their situation worse.
Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#4I did this like 20yrs ago. Would ask him for payment and he would go quiet until he needed changes. I made the changes and he would be like oohhh I need to pay you don't I! I give the details and he goes quiet again until he needed more changes
Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#5I build websites for a living and sometimes people don't pay their bills. Their website going down is usually not a big deal (sometimes they don't notice for months!). But their email, now THAT is a show stopper every time (instant payment).
Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#6As much as I want to side with the developers I think they are exposing themselves to legal repercussions and made their situation worse.
> legal repercussions
like what? contract says "money for stuff". no money, no stuff.
Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#7As much as I want to side with the developers I think they are exposing themselves to legal repercussions and made their situation worse.
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Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#8As much as I want to side with the developers I think they are exposing themselves to legal repercussions and made their situation worse.
It would be interesting to see the project agreement to know if something like this was expressly outlined in it.
My guess is if it was, the client wouldn't agree to it, but who knows (many people just skim over them anyways).
Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#9As much as I want to side with the developers I think they are exposing themselves to legal repercussions and made their situation worse.
In the UK, this is less of a problem, though it depends a lot on the contract between the company and the developer. Assuming nothing exotic, that the statement on the site is true (and not a malicious falsehood) and that if the hosting belongs to the end customer they did not revoke the developer's access (i.e. no unauthorised access occurred), then the developer is in a reasonable position legally. IANAL, of course.
Re: A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site
#10As much as I want to side with the developers I think they are exposing themselves to legal repercussions and made their situation worse.
> legal repercussions like what? contract says "money for stuff". no money, no stuff.
> no money, no stuff.
No stuff is one thing. Different stuff deployed to client's url is quite another.