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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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[-] Ludrol@szmer.info 119 points 11 months ago

REST API docs

Your consumer can query the API on its own, and download 5 subtitles per IP's per 24 hours, but a user must be authenticated to download more. Users will then be able to download as many subtitles as their ranks allows, from 10 as simple signed up user, to 1000 for VIP user.

I think it's reasonable move. They have Legacy API that cost them a lot of manhours to maitain and they decided to cut on costs and replace it with a new thing. Sadly they decresed amount of api calls from 20 to 5 [needs citation]

I think they don't have good PR guy to better communicate the change

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 45 points 11 months ago

Subtitles are like 5kb text files, why even limit their downloads in any way?

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

If they're storing them in something like Amazon s3, there is a cost (extremely low, but not free) associated with retrieving data regardless of size.

Even if they were an entirely free service, it'd make sense to put hard rate limits on unauthenticated users and more generous rate limits on authenticated ones.

Leaving out rate limits is a good way to discover that you have users who will use your API real dumb.

Their pricing model seems fucked, but that's aside from the rate limits.

[-] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah this is absolutely not an insignificant fee. Especially if they have millions of requests... There be plenty of caching solutions to save on this though, especially since they wouldn't change often.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Oh, I'm pretty sure it's close to trivial. $0.0004 per thousand requests is $400 per billion, or $0.40 per million.
That's as close to insignificant as you can get and still pay attention to. Caching solutions are probably going to end up costing you more in the long run. An HA setup that can handle a billion requests a year is going to cost you at least $100 a month, and still provide less availability than s3.

You don't want unmetered access, but their pricing is unlikely to be based on access rates, and more likely on salary costs and other infrastructure costs, like indexing and search.

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