I had been a long time SA subscriber, since 2013 when I retired. The quality and value of the site has been decreasing over the last couple of years as more and more writers started hiding their best work behind very expensive paywalls.  What was left of value became harder and harder to find - amongst a lot of adds - and the comment section that had been a great source of counter argument started to dry up.  Now, SA wants us to pay $240/yr for the dreck that is left.  Come on!  I do not want to invest my retirement savings totally in REITS, mReits, High Dividend or Preferred stocks.  So if I go with one of these paid services that specialize in one of these sectors, the high premium I'd pay for expert advice would be good for only a portion of my investments.  My supposedly higher return would not be justified by this significant expense.  Further, there are no challenges by other experts on the other side of a paywall to balance recommendations. In the end, the best take away from my SA experience is basic FastGraphs.  Thank you for that. I miss what SeekingAlpha had been.  I do not miss what SeekingAlpha is now.

I have been a long time Seeking Alpha subscriber. Now I am blocked from reading articles unless I pay $240/yr. 90% of the articles do not interest me at all, even though I tried to direct them to my stocks of interest or favorite authors. Most of those favorite authors, in turn, are now hiding behind pay walls, so I have to kiss more and more frogs on SA before I find a Prince. In retirement, I cannot afford or justify the price of these private subscriptions, that cost many more times than I could possibly gain from my limited investments, especially if I don't want to commit everything I have into one of these highly specialized segments.  And now, with the best traditional articles hiding behind expensive private pay walls, SA wants me to pay for the gleanings that are left. No thank you. I'll seek the Seeking Alpha I remember somewhere else. 

I am getting the same. Came out of nowhere. Frankly, 90% of the articles are not worth even the time to delete, the other 10% worth it with the comment section being the prime mover.  That is why I never moved to Premium in the first place.  Please tell me this is a glitch and not a strong arm tactic to move everyone to Premium, a rediculously expensive, low value option.