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The basic service used to let you read articles up to 2 weeks old. Now I need premium just to read past the opening paragraph? Hard pass.

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gautamnaib

When did this change happen

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dantelikesit2

I just noticed today that I can’t read all the article when I click on it! I used to read all I wanted and now I have surpassed my monthly alloyed amount! When did this change occur? I don’t have $99.00 a year just to read articles!!! If this is going to continue I will not be using Seeking Aloha any longer!!!

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mikefornow

I am also going to leave your service if this is not going to change. This is bulls***

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HunterKiller89

As a policy it happened some time ago, but it either never got implemented or did on an extremely limited basis.  
Today a bunch of long time members got hit with it.  It's honestly self suicide IMO, as you destroy the community (obviously a great deal won't pay for the service, and if not given an alternative option, they'll just leave, which will severely degrade conversations in the comments which I feel most members here find to be as valuable if not MORE valuable than the articles themselves.
Once the comments section dies out, even people who would have been willing to pay and subscribe will find that there is no longer a reason to.

You can't alienate half the community and expect zero repercussions in a website that is primarily driven by community discussion.

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mx07gt

Yeah I'm definetly leaving. I can't even read articles? Lol. I'll just look for financial news somewhere else. 

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txjc divys

Bye bye sum bitch.  What a load of sh*t

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Good Company

Dear SA,

I suggest you separate advance features such as ratings, Quants, etc from the news and articles section for basic subscriptions.  Then if you still want paid subs, create an AD supported membership for basic, and give us option to eliminate ads if we decide to pay certain dollars.  Currently the premium is too much for us, the price especially, and the advance features are too advance as well for many basic users.

Please consider it.  Time to think of Netflix ...

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swisspete
Quote from HunterKiller89

As a policy it happened some time ago, but it either never got implemented or did on an extremely limited basis.  
Today a bunch of long time members got hit with it.  It's honestly self suicide IMO, as you destroy the community (obviously a great deal won't pay for the service, and if not given an alternative option, they'll just leave, which will severely degrade conversations in the comments which I feel most members here find to be as valuable if not MORE valuable than the articles themselves.
Once the comments section dies out, even people who would have been willing to pay and subscribe will find that there is no longer a reason to.

You can't alienate half the community and expect zero repercussions in a website that is primarily driven by community discussion.

It's one thing to decide to go from free to pay, BUT:

-Here they go from free to expensive

- they do not communicate. Yesterday i could read articles and today i can't, and there is zero information that they changed their policies. 

- we need an alternative. We are dealing with a bully organization.