You are blocking access to comments for anyone not a Premium subscriber

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While I realize you are attempting to make as much money as possible, blocking people from reading the comments or making comments to articles that we read months ago and have been conversing on for months is going to destroy your clientele and you will never get new subscribers.  There is a cost benefit to where the line should be drawn and cutting off everyone is stupid.  If we have no reason to come to SA as a non-premium user then the term premium is a lie.  There is no usage for anything other than premium makes premium just a basic fee for access.  SA is hardly the only place and beginning to be the worst place to read and comment on market news.  Stupid is as stupid does.  Block all access and block all potential.

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New "cover screen" over old comment streams is rendering SA as a useless place to go

As an SA user since 2010 I have watched you slowly destroy the reasons to come here.  Now you have blocked access to past comment streams on 'expired' articles, without a subscription.  That's pretty much the last straw.  Why would I want to come here any more if I can't go back more than a couple weeks to see content from past comment streams?

Your attempts to monetize SA are destroying its value and the chances of ever reaching your goal.  Given the multiple "surprise" restrictive changes that seem to appear without warning, how do you honestly expect anyone to subscribe to anything?  I've no desire to do so simply because I believe you would continue to turn the screw every couple months by further restricting what my money buys in the way of access.

For now, I'll likely keep reviewing free content, but one day in the not too distant future, I will probably just give up on SA entirely.  I can see the lengthy stream of complaints you receive in this vein, and yet you continue on by incrementally destroying what little value remains.

Best of luck with that.

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bungalo101

Still broken on iOS as well. even 'tracking comments' or leaving actual comments doesn't allow viewing of any comments after it's 'gone premium'.

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maillot jaune

Sadly Seeking Alpha is becoming Yahoo Finance 

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Smarty_Pants

At one point this problem was corrected.  Now it is back to having no access to comments on old articles unless you are a Premium member.  The old comments aren't even displayed to read ... AGAIN. 

Is this a deliberate effort to destroy the true value of SA for basic members?  Your business sense is incredibly short sighted if that's the case.  Keep it up and you'll soon find there's no reason for visiting SA at all. 

Why would anyone PAY money to use a website that goes out of its way to discourage an exchange of information, or even accessing that information more than a couple weeks old?  

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anonymous

Oh my gosh, this is so pathetic. Seekingalpha even blocked out the news. 

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The Nattering Naybob

Same thing just happened to me... cannot access MY OWN RECENT COMMENTS or from YEARS AGO. Including my POSTS & ARTICLES. Really?

https://feedback.seekingalpha.com/helpdesks/37/tickets/399717-access-to-my-comments