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?
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
Funny, your explanation about your policy change talks about "supporting your contributors". That's a nice idea, if all contributions were valuable, but they're not. Why pay for crap? You had the better approach, that being to allow authors to offer Premium Services where people could opt to subscribe, with the best rising to the top. Why pay contributors at the bottom that people don't find worthy of their money? You've got it all wrong. Good luck with that.
Funny, your explanation about your policy change talks about "supporting your contributors". That's a nice idea, if all contributions were valuable, but they're not. Why pay for crap? You had the better approach, that being to allow authors to offer Premium Services where people could opt to subscribe, with the best rising to the top. Why pay contributors at the bottom that people don't find worthy of their money? You've got it all wrong. Good luck with that.
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.
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.
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.
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
I continue to get notices that I have articles from people I "FOLLOW". I only have a few people I follow and I only read a few articles at most per month. You say we can "still access any article, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit". I can't imagine the few I read is my limit and you haven't answered this issue satisfactorily for the people here. Then you say, "it resets every 28 days". Mine has not reset. So, we'd all like some truthful and accurate answers. We're waiting and I'm sure all your contributors are wondering where we all went. Thank you.
I continue to get notices that I have articles from people I "FOLLOW". I only have a few people I follow and I only read a few articles at most per month. You say we can "still access any article, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit". I can't imagine the few I read is my limit and you haven't answered this issue satisfactorily for the people here. Then you say, "it resets every 28 days". Mine has not reset. So, we'd all like some truthful and accurate answers. We're waiting and I'm sure all your contributors are wondering where we all went. Thank you.
I think they have answered it satisfactorily.
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.
One more idea for everyone - Substack hosts a large number of investment newsletters here. All of them provide free content with most offering additional benefits to paying members. Some of them are completely free of charge. Most offer the ability to discuss with authors and other members via article comments.
TO: Seeking more alpha than you
WHO are you, and how long have you been on SA's payroll? You show the same empathy and concern for readers as whoever made this decision, which is not much. Are you the decision-maker hiding behind a keyboard and a user name? Nobody is arguing what SA's rights are; this is all about tranparency. MitjaL, well said! Your words, especially in response to "S.M.A.T.Y." have summed up our collective complaints, frustration, and disappointment most eloquently. Thank you.
There are more posts here by "Seeking more alpha than you" than anyone else. SMATY appears to be the only one responding to us vs. SeekingAlpha, who doesn't seem to care what anyone has to say or ask. So, yes, "coachart", I think he/she/it IS employed by SeekingAlpha. And, based on how stupid SeekingAlpha is behaving, it seems to match with how stupid SMATYs comments are. Therefore, we must conclude that the child that is SMATY is actually the CEO of SeekingAlpha who has now gone insane. Being insane, he/she/it is sabotaging his own company and just toying with us. We need to just walk away.
I continue to get notices that I have articles from people I "FOLLOW". I only have a few people I follow and I only read a few articles at most per month. You say we can "still access any article, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit". I can't imagine the few I read is my limit and you haven't answered this issue satisfactorily for the people here. Then you say, "it resets every 28 days". Mine has not reset. So, we'd all like some truthful and accurate answers. We're waiting and I'm sure all your contributors are wondering where we all went. Thank you.
sbals
I deleted all my authors and those I follow.
It has been over 4 weeks since I used my “limit” and I still can’t read any articles as mine hasn’t rest either. I am hoping that SA rethinks their program. If not, on January 1st I will be permanently deleting my account so they won’t be collecting any ad revenue for my free subscription.
In case anyone doesn’t know how to delete their account go to your profile settings and click on privacy. At the bottom of that page there is a button to permanently delete you SA account. If all the free disgruntled subscribers who aren’t going to pay for premium anyway do this it might turn some heads.
Maybe they won’t care, but if thousands of us do it on January 1st it might wake their advertisers up.
There are more posts here by "Seeking more alpha than you" than anyone else. SMATY appears to be the only one responding to us vs. SeekingAlpha, who doesn't seem to care what anyone has to say or ask. So, yes, "coachart", I think he/she/it IS employed by SeekingAlpha. And, based on how stupid SeekingAlpha is behaving, it seems to match with how stupid SMATYs comments are. Therefore, we must conclude that the child that is SMATY is actually the CEO of SeekingAlpha who has now gone insane. Being insane, he/she/it is sabotaging his own company and just toying with us. We need to just walk away.
hahaha. Great comment. SMATY and his comments are about as useless as a box of rocks on a sinking ship.
I will miss the great comment posters when I permanently delete my account on January 1st but definitely won’t miss SMATY’s useless comments.
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
Many, if not all "Contributors/writers" of free articles are the owners of your "Marketplace" offerings. There are now 191 services offered in Marketplace. If I can't read their free articles, how am I supposed to determine how they think and whether what they're offering is right for me? I am a previous subscriber to one of those services and I'm always on the lookout for more. You are now shutting off my ability to find and subscribe to these people. What are you thinking?
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