Free article limit?

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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? 

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SA Admin Shubham Shresth
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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
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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

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Thank you S.A.  I've been along for the ride for about a decade, loyally reading most articles and authors that I like every day.  It takes me several hours usually and I've put up with all the ads that accompany them.  However, I have access to professional advice already. If forcing me to upgrade to a paid service is how it's going to be from now on, then just color me gone.  You're going to save me several hours every morning.  Up until now, I found some value to the service.  Now, I find none.  As for the limited number of "free" articles each month - bah, humbug.  Seems the appropriate time of year.  Goodbye.

“Just color me gone.”  I cannot for the life of me understand why that would be a loss for Seeking Alpha.  All they are losing is someone who doesn’t want to pay.  If I ran SA and you said just color me gone I’d say okay that fine no biggie.

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thomasf55
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“Just color me gone.”  I cannot for the life of me understand why that would be a loss for Seeking Alpha.  All they are losing is someone who doesn’t want to pay.  If I ran SA and you said just color me gone I’d say okay that fine no biggie.

Any site that gets even some of its revenue through advertising becomes less and less able to obtain that revenue as it loses popularity.  And popularity is lost one reader at a time, only a fraction of which have posted "color me gone." One reader may be "no biggie" as you say....but multiply it by several thousand fold and there's an effect.  Now do you understand?

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TxGolfer57
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“Just color me gone.”  I cannot for the life of me understand why that would be a loss for Seeking Alpha.  All they are losing is someone who doesn’t want to pay.  If I ran SA and you said just color me gone I’d say okay that fine no biggie.

Normally when people are unable to comprehend something, they ask questions to gain a better understanding. You just seem to want to continuously demonstrate your lack of knowledge about how online communities work. 

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Any site that gets even some of its revenue through advertising becomes less and less able to obtain that revenue as it loses popularity.  And popularity is lost one reader at a time, only a fraction of which have posted "color me gone." One reader may be "no biggie" as you say....but multiply it by several thousand fold and there's an effect.  Now do you understand?

Judging by the comments on articles and how many people now are premium members, SA doesn’t seem to be hurting at all or losing popularity.  The only “readers” they lost are those that wanted the content for free.  No big loss.

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Normally when people are unable to comprehend something, they ask questions to gain a better understanding. You just seem to want to continuously demonstrate your lack of knowledge about how online communities work. 

On the contrary, it’s those saying goodbye SA that are demonstrating that they don’t understand how life works.  SA is more than entitled to charge for their content and services.  Everyone threatening to leave are failing to comprehend that’s not much of a threat since they aren’t willing to pay.  

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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!

I agree this is the most D-bag reply by any measure. Patiently waiting for them to correct this or I'm even unsubscribing from my marketplace service and spending my time on other financial websites.

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JRK58

okay can we at least agree that SA is not creating this content? it is readily available for free on google and in fact SA have grabbed it and is now using the paywall to drive their revenue. if what they have came to them at cost then fine, charge for that material but don't charge us to read free material 

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I agree this is the most D-bag reply by any measure. Patiently waiting for them to correct this or I'm even unsubscribing from my marketplace service and spending my time on other financial websites.

I don't think it's a D-bag reply.  I think everyone that thinks they have even one iota of a right to ask SA to continue providing even a single article free of charge are the ones being D-bags.

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okay can we at least agree that SA is not creating this content? it is readily available for free on google and in fact SA have grabbed it and is now using the paywall to drive their revenue. if what they have came to them at cost then fine, charge for that material but don't charge us to read free material 

It's okay if they charge either way.

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Trader Isaac

FWIW, and I thought it was worth it, I got an offer for $39 on my PC for 1 year of SA Premium.  I took it.  Funny on my ipad & iphone the offer was $99  I find value in the comments.  Also, with a paid site, maybe it will cut back on the pumpers, like you get on StockTwits.