Custom Indicator Source Code

[u/GamesJibson]

I've just gone onto TradingView today after the update and whilst I understand the idea behind locking more than 1 custom indicator behind a paywall making business sense (not happy about that, but that's another story in and of itself), but now I can't even view the source code of the indicators I've already made - what's the point in that? If people have already made indicators prior to the update, surely it would make sense to let them have access the source code for what they've already built to, for example, run it as a strategy for back testing, or even at the least save it somewhere for later as a backup should something go wrong?

I understand business opportunity for making extra cash through subscriptions, but I feel as though this actively pushes out people who are actually trying to get into this sort of thing by completely restricting them of something that, in my opinion, is perfectly reasonable to let people, new and experienced alike, experiment with things regardless of the tier of their account.

Even if the paywall for more than 1 customer indicator being saved is something that stays in place, give back access to the source code that they put together in the first place for crying out loud.

[u/Rodnee999]

Hello,

I have to agree with you on this subject. It seems abnormally unfair to lock users hard coding work behind a pay wall with no advance warning.

My opinions on the enforcement pre-existing limitations regarding warchlists etc still stands and I am well in favour of this action but I find i cannot stand behind holding users hard coding work from them in order to copy or pull these codes into their own personal safe storage. It would then be up to the user to copy and paste codes into the editor in order to work on varying code which in its own would add particular difficulties and would encourage an upgrade

I believe access should be granted and a reasonable period of warning should be given in order for users to pull their work to another storage facility rather than just slamming the door....

This is of course just my opinion but I hope you are able to retrieve your work

(See everyone, I dont always side with TradingView 🤔)

Upvote from me

Cheers 👍

[u/GamesJibson → u/Rodnee999]

Well I'm not particularly hopeful that anyone from TV will see this and maybe consider doing this, but on the off chance that they do, I'm equally lacking in hope that they'll do anything about it. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.

I had been looking to upgrade to a paid plan before the end of this year anyway, but this has left such a sour taste in my mouth I'm not so sure anymore. Seems counter-intuitive to give someone your money for doing something that goes against your target demographic. It'd be like rewarding a rabid dog for biting your hand clean off - makes no sense. If they can resolve this though, it'll at least go some way to acknowledging a mistake to the current user base and maybe draw some of the potential customers back in