First time since joining seeking alpha I’m Receiving a free article limit message for about a week now.Didn’t receive any email or notice about a change on the site and not sure if others are experiencing same issue or if it’s a glitch I’m experiencing. If there is a new article limit how many is it and how/when does it reset?
Your post tells me you miss SA. A lot. Otherwise you would have simply moved on.
As I posted elsewhere, I have found a way around some of SA’s restrictions on articles under the basic plan. I can read all the articles and comments I want. Can’t comment on them myself but that’s ok. It’s not worth their fee to simply post a comment on articles. I’m not missing it as much as you seem to imply and as you can see, I have even found a way to post comments here…all for free.
Sincerely,
Seattle Kraken
I think what they are doing is great. SA needed to be cleaned up and moving to a paid model will get rid of many who shouldn't be here.
Judging by the score you have on SA, you would be one of those individuals. I believe you’re at a -31 star rating. Every site needs a few bottom feeders. Thank you for fulfilling that vital roll.
To anyone still here or caring. I have posted many negative, but valid comments in the last several days, in part to purposely challenge SA to reply to us all. Not only are they not replying, they are deleting my posts. I'll be leaving this place soon, I hope anyone with sense will do the same. I can't support a company like this.
You’re in good company. SA is not the site it used to be. Partly that is due to their paywall policy and partly due to having a lack of quality authors. Some real good ones but a lot of junky ones…lead by Rida and his whipping boy Pendragon.
I strongly disagree with you. I don't think the contributors are crap. They put out good content. I am glad they decided to charge for their site.
SMATY... I hope they're at least paying you minimum wage to camp out here, Mr. CEO. Your comments are consistent with management's stupid decisions and ongoing mismanagement, so I think that title is appropriate. Funny how, as I read all threads on this site, nobody is happy. Your company is crumbling down with every dumb thing you do.
Do you always get this triggered when a website doesn’t give you stuff for free?
I've been following SA for a while. I was notified I had reached my article limit per SA and now get an occasional full article if I'm lucky. What's funny is I noticed a person who had over 4K comments and was not a paying member and appears to be able to comment. I've made a lot less comments. I believe I was black balled or cut off from full articles due to my back and forth with PendragonY who in my opinion is very callous to people who comment over a articles written by Rida Morwa. PendragonY called me a Dude and told me to Chill Out. Not very professional. It appears to me that SA has a double standard. Bottom line. DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO.
It appears as though a substantial subset of us non-Premium subscribers were targeted by an up-or-out policy.
There are still many non-Premium subscribers being served by the other policy that was established a couple of years ago. I infer that SA is conducting an experiment to assess its effects with an eye toward extending it to all non-Premium subscribers.
There are alternatives, of course. Yahoo Finance and Substack are both worth considering, IMO.
You can read articles and comments in a web browser by disabling cookies for seekingalpha.com, though you can't post or identify unread comments. This loophole may not be hard to close, so I would be surprised to see it persist.
It's hilarious because I can just copy and paste the headline into google, to find another, free article to read the exact same content. Now, I am reading ads on the other site, not SA. What a brilliant move on SA's behalf.
Thank u for this. I'll do the same now on
You all need a better answer than this. If this policy went into effect in Jan 2021, explain how so many of the people commenting on this thread are saying they are getting "you have reached your article limit" for the first time? Your answer is just not believable and it appears you are not addressing it. I should have received this message in Jan 2021 as I read a lot of articles every month. I believe this strategy is a bad one and you are going to lose a lot of readers, many who make your comment section so lively and valuable!
100% agree..if this went into effect in 2021 that’s ridiculous that all of. A sudden it’s a thing. Clearly it’s targeted. Would love a real explanation from SA instead of this copy paste statement
you replied up above
This limit is dynamic to the individual member, based on the device they use, the traffic source, and a number of other parameters. It resets itself every 28 days.
what are the parameters? It has been 2 months and I cannot read any articles. Does bot seem to be resetting
Hi there,Thanks for reaching out!
In order to continue providing our users with outstanding financial analysis and news, we changed our Paywall policy in January 2021.
You can read more about this change here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4396836-important-update-for-seeking-alpha-users
The good news is that you can still access any article on any stock, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit to how much you can read.
This limit is dynamic to the individual member, based on the device they use, the traffic source, and a number of other parameters. It resets itself every 28 days.
If you want to keep reading past the limit, you can just go ahead and start your free two-week trial of Seeking Alpha Premium - no commitment required.
Premium, apart from providing you unlimited access to analysis articles also provides you with many other powerful tools that can help you with your investing. You can get an overview of the service here.
Hope this helps! Feel free to reach out in case further assistance is required.
Regards,
Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha