Transifex has moved to a closed-source model

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 6 09:22:24 PDT 2014


On 6 July 2014 19:19, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
<subsurface at henrik.synth.no> wrote:
> 6. jul. 2014 17.59 skrev "Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit123 at gmail.com> følgende:
>
>
>>
>> On 4 July 2014 13:13, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > "The decision was engineering-driven, not business-driven"
>>
>> the above seems like a lie looking at:
>> https://www.transifex.com/pricing/
>> "Sign up for your 30-day free trial and start a new chapter in your
>> localization life"
>>
>> i don't see a free hosting option on that page, which means that even
>> if their "solo plan" (19$ per/month) is not an option a new service
>> has to be investigated.
>>
>> also not sure that the "solo plan" word limit (15,000) is sufficient.
>> words are an odd thing to measure.
>> subsurface has 1600 strings where if every string holds an average of
>> ~9,4 words the limit is already reached; unlikely at this point if
>> this calculation makes sense.
>
> The same page states that:
>
> "Crowdsource translations for your Open Source project for free on Transifex
> with no word count limits."
>

thanks, missed that and hopefully the case...

lubomir
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