Appwrite

The executor's table of active runtimes can fall out of sync with the real containers, so executions fail with a curl error and the inactive runtime deletion fails in the logs.

Affects: self-hosted function users

Right after setting up Appwrite locally, sign-up fails because MariaDB refuses the connecting container host. The reporter resolved it by creating a root user allowed from any host.

Affects: new self-hosting user

After upgrading from 0.15 to 1.0, the renamed SMS provider environment variable from the new docs is not sending requests to Twilio.

Affects: self-hosting user upgrading versions

The connection test does not enable SMTP authentication, so wrong usernames or passwords pass and the settings are saved successfully.

Affects: project admin configuring email

Sending a null name to the user creation endpoints produces an unhelpful server error although the name is optional. The developer, who is building their own SDK, can work around it.

Affects: developer building a custom SDK

After blocking a user, their sessions persist and cause sign-in requests from a different user on the same device to be rejected with a user_blocked error.

Affects: app admin blocking users

The user needs atomic updates such as incrementing a counter, because doing it in server functions cannot prevent race conditions. Firestore offers field increments and transactions for this.

Affects: developer building counters like likes

Inserting 12,000 documents requires 12,000 separate API calls, which is inefficient. The user asks for an endpoint that accepts an array of documents.

Affects: developer importing large datasets

The user says Appwrite is hard to use in production because data cannot be written directly to the database without the API. They request a Prisma-style connector and an option to disable Redis caching.

Affects: developer evaluating Appwrite for production

The user wants to group related create, read, update and delete operations into one transaction so everything can be rolled back on failure. Without it data integrity is hard to maintain.

Affects: developer needing data integrity

The fixed rate limit per IP cannot be adjusted, though some functions like OTP resending need different limits. The user built a proxy function to control limits manually, which is hard to manage.

Affects: developer using functions for OTP resend

The user wants an array-in-array comparison but the equal query returns nothing. The workaround is a function that explodes the array into a separate collection so an OR can be used, which creates a large collection.

Affects: developer querying array attributes

Without OR support the user fires multiple queries with cursors to simulate it while syncing a local database. Overlap between results can reach 100 percent, wasting time and server resources.

Affects: developer syncing a local database

A long-time Firestore developer lacks nested Map attributes and has to stringify nested models, then build a REST API in front of Appwrite to reshape the data. This is complicated and takes time from client development.

Affects: Flutter developer coming from Firebase

A commenter who tried several BaaS tools says Appwrite and Supabase either lack essential features or put them behind a subscription. They favor Parse, which is fully open source with a large feature set.

Affects: developer evaluating BaaS options