The author of the text is from the Railway team and announces changes to their Hobby Plan, also known as "One Chocolate Per Person", which aims to provide a free tier for users. However, this plan has been abused by some users who try to take advantage of it by having multiple accounts or deploying things against the platform's terms of service. To address this issue, the Railway team is implementing changes to make the free tier worse in order to make the developer tier better and more accessible. The new changes will include restrictions on private repositories, stronger fraud scanning, app sleeping limits, custom domains limitations, logging limits, rate limits, and deposit funds to upgrade options. These changes aim to curb abuse while still allowing good actors to use the platform without significant restrictions.