The status of the subscription experiment [LWN.net]

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 3, 2002 18:05 UTC (Thu) by eberhardy (guest, #5148)
In reply to: The status of the subscription experiment by pj
Parent article: The status of the subscription experiment

I expected to wait a while to subscribe. But its too painful to wait even 1 wk for the weekly edition. And for the first time in over a year I read every section.

I think 2 wks is too long. Much of the information is out of date after 1 wk. But I think casual readers can withstand the pain for that. 1.5 wks though might encourage still more subscribers by the pain threshold of out-of-date data. Clearly the data on the number of new subscribers will need to be analyzed again before changing though...

One suggestion I haven't seen yet: Maybe the security section should be available sooner than the rest of edition? Maybe only 1 or 2 days delayed?

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The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 5, 2002 18:11 UTC (Sat) by mr_bean (subscriber, #5398) [Link]

> I think 2 wks is too long. Much of the information is out of date after 1 wk

I'd like to add a vote for a longer delay - in a sense the *point*
is that the information should loose significant value before you're
prepared to give it away for free.

In the end I subscribed because I've been reading LWN gratis for
some time and felt that I owed something. The week's delay would
not have made _me_ feel that a subscription was worth it.