So just to clarify for those that are railing against this.
The EDDN etc. developers, are lets face it doing a technically skilled , what would ordinarily be a decently paid job, for FDev. Make no mistake that the tools they provide bring the quality of of life features of the game to a playable state for the vast majority of the playerbase (In fact I invite anyone who does not use any of these tools to speak up about their experiences).
And they are doing this for free, having invested their time and tools in doing so.
They have quite reasonably asked for their hard work not to be pulled out from under them, and more than reasonably, managed to keep things limping along by dint of inventiveness and hard work.
And you have the gall to criticise them for it, when they are under no obligation whatsoever to even continue providing these free services to you, at all, they could just say "nah, don't fancy doing this" and walk away.
What is wrong with you?
I invite you to take the time and make your own version, after all, you have the same means to work on them as anyone else outside of FDev.
Otherwise criticising the action by these guys marks you out for what you are, a total hypocrite who wants everything served to them for free whilst at the same time being unwilling to provide those things for yourself, heck I bet the majority of you don't even have the good grace to use something like EDMC to provide your own data, leeches.
The people you should be criticising here is FDev for in the first instance, failing to provide the proper tools ingame, thus forcing the community to fill in the gaps, and in the second instance not bowing down and worshipping these guys for improving their player retention my a massive factor, as free labour.
I fully expect active player numbers to drop off a cliff in the next few days as even something as simple as finding a ship or a module becomes functionally impossible.
