I agree with all other posts here. Forcing a subscription from a community based platform is going to lose you business. I am an infrequent viewer, mainly checking in from time to time to research specific stocks. I will not pay you $20 a month to read a handful of articles. In this case you are losing all my add revenue. I've been on SA for years and years and I bet you've made a little ad money from me. Now you will get zero. I don't get how this can be a good move considering your structure. There are some novice writers on SA and that's total cool for a freeish platform. Why would I pay you to read some novice articles? I agree that the prior model made total sense and that the hardcore people would pay. I think you really just lost all of the non-hardcore SA folks. Please reverse this decision. I don't care if you put a popup add on every page.
I agree with all other posts here. Forcing a subscription from a community based platform is going to lose you business. I am an infrequent viewer, mainly checking in from time to time to research specific stocks. I will not pay you $20 a month to read a handful of articles. In this case you are losing all my add revenue. I've been on SA for years and years and I bet you've made a little ad money from me. Now you will get zero. I don't get how this can be a good move considering your structure. There are some novice writers on SA and that's total cool for a freeish platform. Why would I pay you to read some novice articles? I agree that the prior model made total sense and that the hardcore people would pay. I think you really just lost all of the non-hardcore SA folks. Please reverse this decision. I don't care if you put a popup add on every page.