Some reactions so far

Some reactions so far

Subscription levels: I suppose we could always implement a higher level, though I already feel bad that we don't really have much to offer the project leaders now.

That's the wrong way to think about it. I am certain that a large fraction of the Lwn-readership send you money not so much because it gives them any tangible benefit as simply because we *like* what you are doing and want you to *keep* doing it.

For me, any advantages, time-limits, one-time-links whatever are completely irrelevant to if I subscribe or not. What is important is that I want to support what you do. I did so by sending you money as a donation even before subscriptions existed, and I'd keep doing so in the future even if *all* advantages for subscribers where removed.

If someone *wants* to send you more money every month (seems to be the case based on a few comments here) then I don't see any reason whatsoever not to allow that. You need the money, and there's people who are happy to give it to you, where's the problem ?

It's not as if those people aren't perfectly aware what they're doing with their money. They're a) increasing the chanse that Lwn will stay around and b) helping people who do an excellent job get paid more in line with what you deserve.