When will Bitbucket finally offer a paid plan for Snippets?

[sorcerykid]

Did anyone at Atlassian think it through when Snippets (a longstanding free feature) was suddenly put behind a paywall, breaking links to everyone's snippets posted around the Internet? And the only choice to maintain those links is to shell out $18 per month?

I pay a mere $2/month for a VPS account that gives me 1TB SSD and 2GB of RAM. So it just doesn't add up why if I want to upload and share my source code online (that has been hosted on BitBucket since 2016, a full decade), I have to pay 9 times that amount.

There should be a plan for legacy accounts to be able to keep Snippets live with a minimal monthly fee. Paying $216 PER YEAR just to is completely and utterly absurd. On GitHub I pay exactly $0 per year for gists, which is one of the main reasons why GitHub is far superior because they are an honest and trustworthy platform for code sharing.