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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ilega_dh@feddit.nl 10 months 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.
Carighan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months 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 10 months ago
And what does that matter? Millions of requests cost
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
They ask for $15/year. Cheaper than Nintendo Switch Online
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 months 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.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months 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
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
then they utterly failed to communicate that lol
danc4498@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months 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
baatliwala@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
That’s good to know, thanks for the link.
The API documentation needs to be updated.