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Happy paying customer for 2 or 3 years now. I'll probably be downgrading to free because it definitely supports my needs with these upgrades.

This is a strange view of business: Take what people are happy to pay for, then give it to them for free.

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They can probably make more with ads and the new fee to disable said ads.

I'd love to see the CPM they get that beats $24/yr from an infrequent user like me. I use it as a storage site and visit it extremely rarely. Maybe I'm an outlier.

Nope, you're like me, another happy paying user. However, I'll pay $25 if I'm grandfathered in. But with how much more engaging the design is, I'll be sure to visit more often

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