My main interest in the site is the comment sections, which probably isn't enough to make me join.  I would like to point out there is a lot of pushback here to SA from many users. I think an important point to keep in mind is many of us have never given SA a dime. Maybe they sold our eyeballs, but it is possible that isn't profitable enough for them. As a businessman I can surely respect their decision, because I know it is pretty hard to turn a profit off the people that don't want to pay for services. Free users (me included) shouldn't really be complaining to SA about them trying to grow more of a revenue stream. At the end of the day I will be grateful for the free services I do receive from SA. 

Hopefully it is just a bug they can fix. If not SA becomes pretty worthless for free users ( or at least me) as the comments sections are more important than the articles themselves.