{"id":41941,"date":"2024-01-30T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41941"},"modified":"2024-02-06T08:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:31:48","slug":"ifttt-killing-legacy-pro-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/30\/ifttt-killing-legacy-pro-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"IFTTT Killing Legacy Pro Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Patterson<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Remember when IFTTT said it would allow its legacy users to set their own prices for the service’s “pro” plan, and that it would honor those prices “forever”? Well, it turns out “forever” has an expiration date.<\/p>

In a message posted on its website, IFTTT just announced that its pay-what-you-want legacy Pro plans are going away<\/a>, with current users on that plan slated to be migrated to the $5-a-month IFTTT Pro+ plan at the start of their next billing cycles.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The move comes just a couple of weeks after IFTTT announced that it would yank access to Twitter applets from its free users<\/a>, as well as reducing the number of applets that free users could create to two, down from the original limit of three.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d been reluctantly subscribed since the introduction of the legacy plan, because although the service was not particularly reliable or stable, I hadn’t found anything better. Several weeks ago, though, they started enforcing rate limits<\/a> such that IFTTT became completely useless for my main purpose of archiving tweets to e-mail. The Pro+ plan didn’t have a higher limit, either, so I deleted most of my applets and went back to the free plan. I’m disappointed that they have continually reduced their offerings, even for paying customers, and never fixed longstanding user interface and reliability issues. And I don’t understand why the rate limits are so low for customers paying $150\/year.<\/p>\n\n

nitter.d420.de<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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If nothing changes, all remaining instances will go down eventually: Instances rely on guest accounts, which are valid for a certain time and of which you need a ton to run a public instance. The API for this got taken down and it doesn't look like a fluke this time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nitter is the other way that I’ve been accessing Twitter, but more and more of the instances<\/a> are down, throttled, or require human verification.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n