"Urgent: Your Plus subscription has ended," read the email I received last week. It has indeed ended, and no, I don’t think I’ll be renewing this time. Vimeo was originally a more artistic alternative to YouTube, geared toward filmmakers and home to an awesome community to boot. I don’t know who it’s for these days. I’ve been a Vimeo user for 16 years, becoming a month-to-month Vimeo Plus subscriber in March 2010, a few months after graduating from my school’s Cinema & TV department and while finding my first paid freelance video editing gigs before landing my first internship and eventually my first staff job. Naturally, I needed a portfolio site with my video work embedded, and a video hosting service to house it. Vimeo was a professional alternative to hosting on YouTube, with its affordable Plus tier at $9.95 allowing me to customize my video player with no Vimeo logos, higher-quality uploads, and all that good jazz. What I really loved was the creativity it inspired and its…
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