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Vimeo notified me and said I'm in the top 1% of their high bandwidth consuming users. They're forcing me to upgrade my account from a $900/year Premium plan to a $3000/year Custom Plan. I have one week to comply or they will nuke my account lmfao Dying platform continues to die

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Reasons I still use Vimeo: - Redundancy in case YouTube goes down - Better playback for some - Better privacy control - The entire hate5six backend was built around Vimeo's API back in 2008. Decoupling it means rewriting a few thousand lines of code. A project for another day.

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Anyway, Vimeo claims they project my estimated bandwidth usage to be 30,000 GB for 2022. I called bullshit and ran my own analysis using raw data. I got them to give me bandwidth data for the last 2 years. I fired up a Python Jupyter notebook and loaded it via Pandas

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Next, I grouped the data by month, giving me total bandwidth across all videos within a given month. Here are the first 5 rows

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Then I looked at the distribution of monthly bandwidth usage. Seems like in the past 2 years I typically consume around 500 GB per month, but there's also a second peak around 1500 GB, and a tail of months exceeding 2000GB. I thought that was interesting.

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I drilled down further and noticed this. A 4x increase in traffic between June 2021 and July 2021. It checks out. July is when shows came back and I started filming/releasing brand new sets. People were fiending for new show content.

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I then computed the mean and standard deviation of my monthly bandwidth usage for the last two years. My average bandwidth rate is 1318 GB per year with a standard deviation of 829 GB. I used that to estimate a range for my 2022 usage: 16K-26K GB

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Even if we just look at the last 6 months of 2021 and take average monthly bandwidth and multiply that by 12 (full year) then my estimated usage is about 21,000 GB.

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How Vimeo is calculating 30,000 GB is beyond me. I used this analysis to argue for a "cheaper" $2,500/year plan. But yeah, maybe don't try extorting from someone who understands forecasting. Just die already, Vimeo.

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I estimate around 84% of channel traffic is on YouTube vs 16% on Vimeo. Average watch time for all hate5six videos is 4.75 minutes. Idk just seems like a bad sign for a platform if THAT of all things puts me in the top 1%.

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Just revealed they also extorted Andrew Callaghan (formerly All Gas No Brakes) for $16K. Really cool business model you got going on

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is really thriving under your leadership. Hey wait didn't you just announce a big partnership with

patreon.com/posts/vimeo-is

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stock: oh fuck I'm bleeding out

: No prob guys as CEO I got this ::fires up extortion program targeting content creators::

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I just published Python code for automatically downloading all videos on your Vimeo account. Run at your own risk. You need Python3, pip install PyVimeo and store your Vimeo API key/token as environment variables. Run python3 vimeo_auto_downloader.py gist.github.com/hate5six/c6386

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What does hate5six have in common with Channel 5,

@JennyENicholson

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and others? We are all

creators who had our video content held hostage by

for thousands of dollars over a couple hundred views. Thank you to

. theverge.com/2022/3/15/2297 Die Vimeo.

Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform

Patreon creators hosting videos on Vimeo are scrambling.

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duplicate tweet but for thread completeness: And just like that I helped force Vimeo to back down. All systems collapse under pressure. Identify those pressure points. Target them. Exploit them. No man made system is above the laws of thermodynamics.

Improving Vimeo’s policy on video bandwidth

At Vimeo one of our guiding principles is “Users First." We seek to continually improve our service by making our community’s pain points our own.

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like father like son.

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@dave_ruminates

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I love when I get a Sunny rabbit hole thread. These are so interesting!

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I am living for “I had them give me the bandwidth data.” I bet they’d never gotten that one before and I take joy in imagining the convo between billing/sales and engineering

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Insane thread. Sorry about the headache, but the comeback was hilarious.

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lol for us Vimeo calculated we would use 60,000 GB a year and wanted $4700 annually. Our weekly videos average 600-800 views. Bunch of fucking crooks all my homies hate Vimeo

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i forgot that you used to do data science for a living. this is some insane detective work

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