alt Hacker NewsImportant buried context: 60/hour unauthenticated, but 5,000/hour on the free plan.
60/hour sucks. 5000/hour (a little more than one per second) is totally fine.
I'm chalking this up alongside Docker's decision to restrict unauthenticated pulls. Unauthenticated anything went the way of the dodo some time ago. If you want unauthenticated access, go run your own mirror.
Which is fine, and how these businesses should've been run from the start. Require auth, use the sign-in to increase conversion, that increases revenue, that revenue's used to increase capacity. When free plans become a drain on paid users' experience you're shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to support increasing free use you need to increase paid use. Do that later and the users revolt; do it early and it's normal.