To be fair, the email they sent to their newsletter list is more succinct and clear about their services shutting down:
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This will be the last email you ever receive from Actual. You are receiving this because you are a subscriber or have used Actual in the past.
Actual is moving to an open-source model and will be 100% free.
This means our subscription syncing service will be shutting down in the future. We have instructions for setting up your own server, letting you completely own your data and have syncing for free.
Even that part is kind of misleading. Making the software open source doesn't mean that the subscription service has to shut down; those are two different decisions.
But maybe we don't have to be too critical. I tend to read "[project you've never heard of] is going open-source" as "here's a new project you might want to check out", but even if they really mean that the project is mostly shutting down, open sourcing it is a good thing to do.
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This will be the last email you ever receive from Actual. You are receiving this because you are a subscriber or have used Actual in the past.
Actual is moving to an open-source model and will be 100% free.
This means our subscription syncing service will be shutting down in the future. We have instructions for setting up your own server, letting you completely own your data and have syncing for free.
Read more details about how this effects you in the full blog post: https://actualbudget.com/open-source