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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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Will the new API be free?
No idea, not using the website via API
I’m not irritated by the switch but by the phrasing. You can’t start an email like this with “exciting news”
Sorry my dude, you are stoking outrage over something you do not use and apparently do not understand. Look at some of the posts that explain it does not mean the whole page is now for profit, it is not.
It’s exciting news for them 😀, money money money
Must be funny
In a rich man’s world
It’s exciting for someone. And it’s not the end user.
Yes, for up to 20 calls per day.
Why is the title so misleading then?
Because OP doesn’t know what they’re talking about 😅
Was worth the 121 comments and 600+ upvotes I guess
At LEAST!
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Let’s be clear in one thing:
- There’s no free lunches.
That’s it. Everything in the Universe, including you, has a “price” on energy. Now outside of all crony-capitalism craziness, we should all consider having a open, distributed, fair price Internet and it’s resources.
I’m calling Louis.
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Yes but nobody owes you the maintenance of a centralized service.
If the software and content is open source then the community can choose to take over for an org that doesn’t have the will power to keep a costly free-of-charge service running.
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I hear you. But it takes the will and dedication to do it, so it’s really not a life sentence to offer a proprietary service free of charge. Hopefully the people who need it most can find a better alternative.
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The “free” in FOSS stands for free like freedom, not free like air
FOSS projects cost time and money. Non-profits still need money. Not sure why everyone thinks everything should be free of monetary charges on the internet.
Am am not sure what the situation of opensubtitles is. Is it just barely covering costs? Or turning a profit? I have no idea. But i do hate how everyone thinks they’re entitled to free work and free hosting costs of every website on the internet
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Uhhhhh. The article you linked says nothing about “free as in air”, which is the term you used. And thats the only reason i used it
Free as in speech or free as in freedom are the english similes to express the idea of libre
Free air or free beer are gratis. Without monetary cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre?wprov=sfla1
Free software is always libre and sometimes gratis
Plenty of places provide free lunches. They’re still paid for, but they’re free at the point of service. Eg homeless shelters, Wikipedia.
Sikh gurdwaras will also serve free food
I can’t believe that all this time I could have been getting my lunch for free at wikipedia.org
Jimmy Wales serves it himself, with a side of the softcore porn he first made his fortune on.
That’s an unorthodox side dish to say the least, but I suppose beggars can’t be choosers.
Wikipedia is a lunch for your brain
Site owner and whomever in marketing wrote that. Pure psychopathy, IMO.
A proper REST API sounds like exciting news to me, and I’m sure anyone who needs to interact with their APIs…
This happens like two weeks after I finally install the opensubs vlc plugin.
So it’s your fault.
This kind of coincidence happens a lot more than it should to me so I am probably afflicted by a very powerful curse.
https://forum.opensubtitles.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18389
what about vlc player?
And Plex?
Are you by chance using K9Mail?
Yes
Thought it looked familiar, was trying to find this tab and thought I closed it lol
It looks like it
Itt: People doom posting without understanding what the change actually entails
Image Transcription: Email
OpenSubtitles
Dear Redacted,
Exciting news! OpenSubtitles.org is undergoing a transformation, retiring the original API by the end of 2023. Fear not, as this paves the way for the advanced OpenSubtitles.com REST API. We also understand, in some scenarios there is no way to use new API yet, so original API will be avaliable from New Year only for VIP Users.
Change is Good: Introducing the 20% Black Friday Treat!
Celebrate with us! Enjoy a 20% discount on a one-year VIP subscription until November 24th, 2023, so you can use original API. Elevate your VIP experience on both www.opensubtitles.org and www.opensubtitles.com. Instead of 15 USD per year you can get this deal for 12 USD.
VIP Advantage: Unlock Exclusive Benefits
- Usage opensubtitles.org API
- Ad-Free Web Experience
- Direct Download Links
- Higher Download Limits
- Ad-Free Subtitles
- User Profile Visibility
- Contribute to a Greater Cause
Seize this limited-time offer and become a VIP member today. Enhance your subtitle experience - ad-free, seamless, and with higher download limit access.
Good human.
They should rename the site to PaywalledSubtitles.
Except there isn’t a paywall and you can access a limited amount for free
Exciting News For People Who Hate You
Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Yarr, this be objectionable, but inconsequential.
Unless you’re deaf or hard of hearing.
In which case the ADA provides extensive coverage that demands reasonable accommodations. Hence why reddit backtracked and allowed a few apps free API access (eg RedReader, which is very clunky but still works).
ADA… extensive coverage? I see you haven’t ever tried to get a reasonable accommodation.
Extensive =/= perfect. At least there’s a chance of getting reasonable accommodation. With sex discrimination there’s almost no hope outside of employment.
Also I’m sure you’re speaking with a dollop of hyberbole and overlooking a bunch of accommodation provided up front.
What really caught my attention was OpenSubtitles going from a .org to a .com domain.
So it’s a regular business now?
Always has been. I’ve no clue why they got hold of an org domain. At first they were more like early years wikipedia. Today most subtitles don’t sink with almost any release and their hashes are inconsistent.
well it has been deprecated for a few years, and they’re basically asking you to play for continued support.
they have a new REST api, but you still need the old one, pay up because otherwise there’s no motivation to keep it around.
