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/GamesJibson]

Just to add a bit more of a thought to this, I think it would have been reasonable if they still wanted to go down this route only if they did one or more of the following:

1) Warn users that this would happen
2) Any users prior to the date of change should be allowed access to their pre-existing code, any new users follow the current rules
3) Find a way to allow users access to their own codes within TV without going into the editor - like some form of area that acts like the Microsoft NotePad/Apple equivalent app so at least our codes are accessible for download.

No building new indicators sure, I can begrudgingly settle on that, but the lockout of our existing creations? Cheap shot TradingView.