“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”
I like how it says their “updated” API rate limits but doesn’t mention when those rules went into effect or how much warning they gave developers.
Spoiler: the answers are “very recently” and “not even a month”.