It appears as though a substantial subset of us non-Premium subscribers were targeted by an up-or-out policy. 

There are still many non-Premium subscribers being served by the other policy that was established a couple of years ago. I infer that SA is conducting an experiment to assess its effects with an eye toward extending it to all non-Premium subscribers.

There are alternatives, of course. Yahoo Finance and Substack are both worth considering, IMO.

You can read articles and comments in a web browser by disabling cookies for seekingalpha.com, though you can't post or identify unread comments. This loophole may not be hard to close, so I would be surprised to see it persist.

It appears as though a substantial subset of us non-Premium subscribers were targeted by an up-or-out policy. There are a bunch of other threads like this one. The busiest one is here.

There are still many non-Premium subscribers being served by the other policy that was established a couple of years ago. I infer that SA is conducting an experiment to assess its effects with an eye toward extending it to all non-Premium subscribers.

There are alternatives, of course. Yahoo Finance and Substack are both worth considering, IMO.

You can read articles and comments in a web browser by disabling cookies for seekingalpha.com, though you can't post or identify unread comments. This loophole may not be hard to close, so I would be surprised to see it persist.

It appears as though a substantial subset of us non-Premium subscribers were targeted by an up-or-out policy. There are a bunch of other threads like this one. The busiest one is here.

There are still many non-Premium subscribers being served by the other policy that was established a couple of years ago. I infer that SA is conducting an experiment to assess its effects with an eye toward extending it to all non-Premium subscribers.

There are alternatives, of course. Yahoo Finance and Substack are both worth considering, IMO.

You can read articles and comments in a web browser by disabling cookies for seekingalpha.com, though you can't post or identify unread comments. This loophole may not be hard to close, so I would be surprised to see it persist.

It appears as though a substantial subset of us non-Premium subscribers were targeted by an up-or-out policy. There are a bunch of other threads like this one. The busiest one is here.

There are still many non-Premium subscribers being served by the other policy that was established a couple of years ago. I infer that SA is conducting an experiment to assess its effects with an eye toward extending it to all non-Premium subscribers.

There are alternatives, of course. Yahoo Finance and Substack are both worth considering, IMO.

You can read articles and comments in a web browser by disabling cookies for seekingalpha.com, though you can't post or identify unread comments. This loophole may not be hard to close, so I would be surprised to see it persist.

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.

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.

"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for em."

Like others here, I have turned off my notifications and won't be using SA anymore. Member since 2011.

Kenneth, this is an exceptionally lucid post. Agree 100%. I wonder if SA management really understands that this change puts the entire platform at risk.

"Your format and your platform is replicable"