I've been here for years and was hoping management would see how views, good articles, discussion all keep declining and would change the business practice to be what it once was. An amazing free site where countless investors could discuss. Now? Nothing close to it's glory days.

Thanks for the reply, I hope for the best for this site as it has helped me endlessly!

I'll re post in the hope you'll respond to it.  It seems that your response above does indeed say the new revenue is offsetting the decline in readers.

David, the most important data will not be received in the time you are
expecting it. You will think the drop in traffic, comments, new reads,
will be initially offset by the revenue generated but the hard hit will
come later as your base will slowly leave as the site deteriorates.
Quality comments will be lost from your base, the ones that have built
your site, do not be foolish thinking this site cannot be replicated
technologically very easily. Authors will leave as their audience
dwindles. All the points as to why this will not work are listed above, I
just think this is the way it will play out and I hope you revert back
to old articles being free.

It seems you've decided to keep the model the way it is, changing the pricing as needed, and unfortunately I think the platform you initially set out to create has turned into something completely different. Stock holders (readers in this case) do not like to see a business fundamentally change the way it operates, they like consistency with as little uncertainty as possible.

David, the most important data will not be received in the time you are expecting it. You will think the drop in traffic, comments, new reads, will be initially offset by the revenue generated but the hard hit will come later as your base will slowly leave as the site deteriorates. Quality comments will be lost from your base, the ones that have built your site, do not be foolish thinking this site cannot be replicated technologically very easily. Authors will leave as their audience dwindles. All the points as to why this will not work are listed above, I just think this is the way it will play out and I hope you revert back to old articles being free.

As the name suggests I am not a professional investor and cannot afford $900 a year to research my small portfolio. You will lose me as the site deteriorates unless you keep this amazing site the way it was. We were all very happy about this site and praised it endlessly for its unique community. For the site to be operational you may have to generate some more earnings, we realize how business works, but to pay $900 a year to read old articles is ridiculous.

Lastly I'll compare you to my largest holding (which I read articles on here about), QCOM  (SA). QCOM is in a battle with its largest customer Apple (readers on your site).  As a result qcom's share price has been depressed and hostile AVGO (the new SA) is now trying to takeover a weakened qcom.  I'm not a fortune teller and cannot tell you if picking a fight with your largest customer is a good idea or not, only time will tell.