Stripe is indeed stating they'll start charging me 0.5% more for a service they said would be free for me when I signed up. They've done this by renaming the service from subscriptions to billing and adding features to it that I've never used. According to others in this thread, the message they sent out two years ago was:
> "Your account has been upgraded to Stripe Billing for free. No matter how much revenue you process on Stripe, you’ll get unlimited use of Billing’s Starter plan included in the price you currently pay for payments. All new features are available in your account now, no API version upgrade necessary."
This is what I remember as well.
I'd say a good title would be, "YC-funded Stripe moves Subscription customers to Billing, increases their fees and breaks earlier promises". The original title isn't as nuanced but is still more accurate than the current one, IMO.
The submitted title implied that Stripe is raising its prices on all recurring charges. As I understand it, that's not true; therefore that title was misleading and needed to be changed. (Site guideline on this: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
If there's another title that is even less misleading, we can change it again. Btw, as a rule, the best way to complain about a bad title is to propose a better one. We can't come up with all of them and often adopt community suggestions (a few examples: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
If anyone can suggest a better title—that is, accurate and neutral, and preferably with less clunk—we can change it again.