Comment on Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free!

ilega_dh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The new API has the exact same 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

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    then they utterly failed to communicate that lol

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨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…

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨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.

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    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨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 pay $15/year it’s 1000

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      • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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      • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

        The API documentation needs to be updated.

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Empyreus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And what does that matter? Millions of requests cost

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  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨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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