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?
I am not from Thailand. None of your business is not an acceptable answer. When you are ready to start answering questions clearly and succinctly, let me know. Until then I am done with you.
Pigeye: I'd watch my step if I were you. SMATY has given you fair warning. Unless your answers meet his/her/its standards, you need to be prepared for the consequences. If you look back earlier in this thread, you'll see that I admitted that SMATY was right and I was wrong. It's the only way. Excuse me a moment; I need to go make some fresh popcorn.
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.
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Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha
I've been a member for a number of years and this is the first time I've ever been limited. I might go for premium to support the platform if it was going to be $99 for life but I have zero interest in paying $250 a year thereafter. I am primarily here as an HDO subscriber and I'm not interested in quant ratings and the like. I just want to read the news and analysis. If you can freeze me at $99 for life like HDO does with its subscriptions, then I might be interested.
The free article limit and my subsequent response of immediately deleting the SA emails and notifications has saved me about an hour per day. I turned off all SA notifications but I still receive some, but not as many.
Like many others what I find I miss the most is the article comments. Has anyone found an SA alternative with a similar level of community activity?
Thanks
My SA use case was following a short list of stocks for price action, quarterly reports, news, articles about those stocks, and commentary about the articles.
I uninstalled the SA app and replaced it with Yahoo Finance. YF is close enough for me. The articles are click-throughs to SA competitors like Motley Fool and Insider Monkey as well as mainstream sources like Forbes, Fortune, and the WSJ. The YF landing page for each click-through article has an excerpt of the article and a place for YF users to comment. There's also a per-ticker comment feature, "Conversations".
I miss the familiar SA community, but I imagine that's taken a hit from the recent departure of many non-premium subscribers and is not what it once was. I'm warming to YF and continue to see no reason to pay $200+ annually for SA.
I am not from Thailand. None of your business is not an acceptable answer. When you are ready to start answering questions clearly and succinctly, let me know. Until then I am done with you.
SMATY -
Great. No more comment from you would be perfect. Then maybe you can quit sucking SA’s hind tit.
My SA use case was following a short list of stocks for price action, quarterly reports, news, articles about those stocks, and commentary about the articles.
I uninstalled the SA app and replaced it with Yahoo Finance. YF is close enough for me. The articles are click-throughs to SA competitors like Motley Fool and Insider Monkey as well as mainstream sources like Forbes, Fortune, and the WSJ. The YF landing page for each click-through article has an excerpt of the article and a place for YF users to comment. There's also a per-ticker comment feature, "Conversations".
I miss the familiar SA community, but I imagine that's taken a hit from the recent departure of many non-premium subscribers and is not what it once was. I'm warming to YF and continue to see no reason to pay $200+ annually for SA.
Marc:
Thanks for the reply and excellent suggestion. I used to use YF frequently but migrated more to SA.
You’re correct the comments aren’t as dynamic, but I found I was reading the SA comments as much for entertainment as investment information.
Have a great weekend.
Pigeye
Pigeye: I'd watch my step if I were you. SMATY has given you fair warning. Unless your answers meet his/her/its standards, you need to be prepared for the consequences. If you look back earlier in this thread, you'll see that I admitted that SMATY was right and I was wrong. It's the only way. Excuse me a moment; I need to go make some fresh popcorn.
Good advice! I suspect SMATY’s standards are as opaque as SA’s article limit criteria and algorithms. Plus, I referred to he/she/they as SAMTY (unintentionally) in my first reply which I assume is in poor form in SMATY-world.
Butter and salt on the popcorn?
Good advice! I suspect SMATY’s standards are as opaque as SA’s article limit criteria and algorithms. Plus, I referred to he/she/they as SAMTY (unintentionally) in my first reply which I assume is in poor form in SMATY-world.
Butter and salt on the popcorn?
Yup! This thread's better'n anything on daytime TV! And it's always close to beer thirty wherever I am.
This point isn't being discussed enough... For me, the free articles at SeekingAlpha allowed me to discover Premium Authors/Services.Those premiums/subscription fees to the authors are shared with SeekingAlpha. I thought that was the SA business model/source of revenue? Now, by cutting off free articles to people seeking to discover premium authors, that's quite stupid isn't it? You're cutting off the very people who are seeking to pay you. Idiotic.
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