skullgiver, 1 year ago

Servers on a KIA scale aren’t free. I’d rather see KIA put this stuff behind a subscription than give it away “for free” by making you pay for 10 years of service upfront, hiding these fees in their pricing.

The cost isn’t in the servers themselves or the bandwidth necessary to keep this shit running, it’s in the network people maintaining yet another rack of servers, the team of programmers kept around to update old APIs, the third party subscription fees to keep data up to date, and the customer support for when this shit breaks.