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Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription

"Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I'm so excited! Let's celebrate with them!" - nobody

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[-] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 192 points 1 year ago

Gather all the worlds subtitles under the guise of being “open” and then bait and switch when you’re the largest subtitles database out there.

The free API had a limit of 20 subs/day, you’re not going to tell me those server costs were significant.

[-] entropicdrift 144 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The new API has the exact same free limit. They're just dropping support for the old API soon and people who want to depend on the old version will need to pay for its continued support because they want to push everyone onto the new site/API

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 1 year ago

then they utterly failed to communicate that lol

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

It doesn’t say the new API costs money, though. It just says the old API requires VIP for people that can’t switch to the new API…

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 31 points 1 year ago

Yea OP should update the post. OS did a horrible job communicating but its not as dire as the title projects.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 21 points 1 year ago

I think it goes from 20 to 5. 10 if you're not anonymous. To get more you need to have contributed to the site, monetarily or other wise.

[-] entropicdrift 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The minimum for anonymous is 10/day. If you sign up and do nothing else it's 20.

If you sign up and upload a single file it goes to 50. If you upload 51 subtitles it's 100. If you upload 101 or more it goes to 200, and if you upload 1001 it goes up to 300.

If you pay $15/year it's 1000

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is still reasonable IMO, unless people are binge watching a Netflix release in the entire day they can wait for the next day to download subs.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

That's good to know, thanks for the link.

The API documentation needs to be updated.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

And yeah sure, server costs and all. OTOH, subtitle files are tiny, so there's only so much money you can ask for it realistically.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

I bet they can put all the subtitles of every movie and show in history on a single 10TB hard drive.

[-] Empyreus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And what does that matter? Millions of requests cost

[-] entropicdrift 2 points 1 year ago

They ask for $15/year. Cheaper than Nintendo Switch Online

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago

Gather all the worlds subtitles under the guise of being “open” and then bait and switch when you’re the largest subtitles database out there.

MS did something similiar 2007 already.

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