Ask HN: How did the industry settle on weekly limits?
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4 hours ago
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Weekly Limits
This policy seemed to come from almost nowhere but was quickly adopted across many products. Cutting off access for 25% of the time based product you've paid for feels like it is just incompatible with a subscription at the core conceptual level. Cooldown times and over-use back-offs are nothing new but there is a drastic difference in tone from 5 hours to 5-7 days.
I'm at a loss to see how this became an acceptable practice with the most common answer being "Buy more subs"
▲It's probably a capacity problem, but we need to speak up for something better.
reply▲Just cancel your subscription.
reply▲"Weekly caps feel like a psychological nudge toward higher tiers rather than a genuine resource constraint. The industry collectively normalized it because it works."
reply▲You can still buy tokens direct from the API. The subscription model is not much more than a glorified paid trial.
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