A note from your editor

Posted Apr 17, 2014 18:30 UTC (Thu) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
In reply to: A note from your editor by g2boojum
Parent article: A note from your editor

> Incidentally, perhaps now is the time for a $10/month subscription level? I'd like to increase it from $7/month, but $14/month seems a bit high....

One thing you can do is subscribe for a year at $7/month, then after six months increase it to $14/month. You won't pay more by upgrading, your subscription will just get used up twice as fast, so you'll need to renew after three months instead of the usual six.

If you do this repeatedly, the result is that you pay for a year at $7/month but have to renew every 9 months, which is effectively what you are asking.

And to Jon, as others have said I wish you a speedy and (as much as possible) comfortable recovery. Don't hesitate or regret to take time off — the community you have created is a great gift and is more than strong enough to survive the next year or so without your sacrificing your health for its sake.

$10/month subscription

Posted Apr 21, 2014 20:37 UTC (Mon) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123) [Link]

If that sounds like a lot of ongoing work, you could create a *second* account with a subscription at the $3.50/month level, then never log in with that account, except to renew once a year. Maybe add a suffix to your existing account name when creating the second account.

There is a bit more overhead for LWN (two financial services transactions instead of one), but since they offer subscriptions at the $3.50 level one would hope that the overhead is not a significant fraction of the starving hacker subscription. And besides, since it's really $10.50/month not $10, there's an extra $6/year to cover that overhead.