Vimeo Woes

Monday, November 13, 2023 - 10:10 PM

Hokay! So! I reduced my Vimeo account down to a free Basic account, and that went into effect today. I loved having the paid benefits, mostly the ability to replace a video upload so that I could have one link to send out for the master uploads for It Doesn't Matter, and the increased storage limits, but I don't $240 a year love them. Unfortunately, the free Vimeo storage is limited to 5GB so I did have to go through and purge a lot of videos of the shot-by-shot uploads, currently only the sequence 17 shots are up. Probably going forward I'll host the shots through YouTube, since...it's the same.

Honestly, I'm a bit disillusioned with Vimeo, they didn't make it easy to cancel. Okay, lemme get into it, actually. So, my account was set to renew in September, I didn't have enough funds so the autodraft didn't go through. No big deal. So, I saw that, and needed to decide if I was going to scrape the money together to continue the Pro account or not, and according to the emails and the dumb little banner Vimeo put up on my page every time I logged in I had until, heh, today, November 13, as it happens, to make that decision.

...EXCEPT. The autodraft went through on my birthday, November 8. So THAT was a pain in the ass. So that autodraft happening just on its own anyway helped make my decision for me. Because no, fuck that. Had it been trying to ping my my account constantly this whole time? What the fuck. So I went in to shut the account down. And it would let me stop it from renewing again in 2024. But it wouldn't let me downgrade my account mid-term without submitting a service ticket. Which I hate. So I submitted that ticket, email back and forth with the guy, assert that I understand I won't have the extra space and services from the Pro membership anymore. But yeah. That's where I am with that, and why I ended up going where I'm going with the Vimeo thing. Which sucks, I really liked Vimeo, but that whole thing set off some alarm bells for me, and yeah, gonna be approaching posting differently.