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

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If nobody gives them money, they’ll revert back… But people will give them money, so they won’t.

    • noahkamara@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      11 months ago

      But the new api is still free, you just have to pay if you want to use the legacy api. This makes sense to get people to switch without requiring them to do it super fast