Let’s see how badly things have got for the paid users (especially Pro):
Secretly switching models: TBH, they have been doing this for some time before, but now they just default to “best”, which is their cheapest (and crappiest) model whenever a limit is hit
Secretly cutting Pro Search and Deep Research quotas: from 600 searches to 200 per week and from 50 to 20 per month, respectively. Sorry bro, but expecting people to pay 1 dollar for 1 research is simply ridiculous
Secretly restricting image generation in certain regions (eg Vietnam)
Secretly limiting videos generation, as well!
Secretly deleting complaint posts on Reddit. In the same time, there are a bunch of “users” popped up and praise how awesome PPLX has become (who knows if they are bots/ PR / PR bots?)
The overall answer quality is getting shorter, lazier and thus, shittier
A large portion of users who received their Pro free for 1 year now reports that they have been downgraded to Free tier for no reason
And now the fxxking file upload limitation: 50 to 3, the same as Free tier users? Do you even know what “pro” means?
Worst of all, absolutely no response from dev team? Hello? Are you still there? We need some answers, mate!
PPLX was my favourite AI tool, the Space, the “Turn Chat to File”, the freedom (no heavy censorship as ChatGPT)…and it is really sad seeing it goes down a spiral like this! Turns out gifting 1 year Pro subscription for free like it were free isn’t really a good business practice, and we all now pay for the price of it 🤷🏻♀️
I talked about this before on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142325<p>Facts: restarted archlinux yesterday after updates, so browser will start clean did not open perplexity.com since that restart on the morning chromium tried to open perplexity.com again after more or less 8 hours, another call to that site I don't have any extension other than ublock origin on Chromium: Version 147.0.7727.116 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) Arch Linux (64-bit)<p>So why is chromium trying to open perplexity.com?<p>I have opensnitch installed and every connection prompts to allow or deny, that is why I can find this requests. I did use perplexity a few days ago, but sure it was before update, so pc was restarted.<p>This was made from /usr/lib/chromium/chromium.<p>Even /usr/lib/firefox/browser/omni.ja is full of perplexity.ai crap, and some other sites, but that is shocking. I found perplexity mentions on Firefox, Librewolf and Thunderbird libs. But none for Chromium.<p>I know there is a aur/perplexity 1.5.1-2 client but I don't have it installed, as I don't have any account with them.<p>This is worst than a virus. I don't even know where to start to find evidence? Chromium code?
Interesting to see that the entrepreneurs from more recent years tend to be doing well relative to years prior.<p>Some interesting future directions could be:<p>- Expanding search to be global and include more competitions, like biology and chemistry<p>- Improving search so less unknown results<p>- Showing insights, like trends over the years<p>Kudos to Perplexity Computer for making this
Workflows from the Neura Market marketplace related to this Perplexity resource