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mwestall Not happening, not ever at anything like that price. In the meantime please sort out your supposed UK site version so it does not feature *any* US offers and pricing and *does* feature some UK ones.Reply -
coolitic For benchmarks, I might understand the appeal of Premium.Reply
However, pay-walled news-articles is hardly appealing at all, because I can't share them w/ my friends. -
hotaru251 4th time trying to give feedback to add some icon to Premium topics on the news stream list of front page.Reply
People don't like clicking at something only to find out its paywalled and you wasted their time.
(this is an example of what part of page I mean and not saying any of these are premium just there is no way to tell currently)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/847630281367748639/1431282261247922237/image.png?ex=68fcd8fb&is=68fb877b&hm=eb69ff261ff8c27c29956945923d3858034d3308deb604534d860981ea00dfb6& -
helper800 This is what I was waiting for to try premium. I will purchase a month and see how the articles that come out, and past premium articles are. If I value them at 7 dollars a month, I will keep subscribing, if not, I will provide feedback and see how it goes. Maybe another business model like selling merchandise and doing life events is better. Can always point to merch as a way to get something and also support the work. The problem with that model is management costs and eventually everyone who is willing to buy a shirt or hat with a hammer symbol on it dries up.Reply
So many people are unwilling to show even a modicum of support. Everything on the internet being free, or nearly free, for so long has broken people's ability to value others work enough to pay for it. If nobody pays for these peoples labor, the website will die. If your rationale is that you can go onto the next free website, go ahead, but those people also have to make a living. People need to get paid for their time somehow, some way eventually. I do not mind the direct pay model as much compared to the spamming of advertisements, popup's, and trackers. -
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You may not be able to link them the article itself, but that does not mean you cannot tell them what is in it? I there is a premium article interesting enough to yourself and friends, why not just jump into a call and talk about it?coolitic said:For benchmarks, I might understand the appeal of Premium.
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user5910 Not interested until a paid subscription removes ads. Ars Technica is great in this regard.Reply -
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I said no way at an average of £4.50 last week, not sure offering a monthly of £5.26 will help me jump at the chance. To put that in perspective Toms - I pay an extra £2.99 to have Amazon video without ads. Can you guess how much more Amazon streaming content I consume in a month than reading Toms?mwestall said:Not happening, not ever at anything like that price. In the meantime please sort out your supposed UK site version so it does not feature *any* US offers and pricing and *does* feature some UK ones.
And have to 100% agree on regionality (is that a word?) - I've said it a few times about content and adverts over the years. Don't give us content that's only relevant to the USA in the 'UK' version of the site and expect us to pay directly or with marketing clicks. It's also not just content - does paying remove ads? I can barely read some articles on my phone for all the marketing.
It really does feel like we are being pushed away at the moment...
