• ha, i love how their reasoning tried to not point out the obvious: money

    upgrade to vip for a better user experience! (cuz we made the other one shitty on purpose cuz money)

    im not faulting them for charging a price for a service, just dont blow smoke up my ass for why youre doin it.

        •  lud   ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 
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          411 months ago

          The uploaders often get VIP for free and what will happen is probably just good for them. Leechers aren’t the greatest for torrents nor services.

          I pay for it, because it’s cheap and I might as well.

          •  andrew   ( @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun ) 
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            IDK, if I was contributing subtitles for an open provider free of charge who shared them free of charge, I’d be glad my subtitles were helping people who needed them. Now that labor has been turned into capital and that rug has been pulled with no back-dated compensation or provisions for free subtitles for hard of hearing or something. It’s a shitty move across the board for everyone but the owner.

            •  lud   ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 
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              211 months ago

              The subs are still free for casual users the ones that need to pay are power users that download through the API.

              The API users won’t upload subs or anything, website users are more likely to do that.

              I doubt I will switch provider because they seem to be the best by far and I download 1-2 files per movie/series automatically via Bazarr.

              If anyone knows any non shit options please tell me.