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posted by
NCommander
on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:01PM
from the help-us-become-financially-independent dept.
from the help-us-become-financially-independent dept.
It's been a long, hard road to this point, but I'm pleased to announce that effective immediately, we are officially accepting subscriptions to SoylentNews. Subscription support is an important step in helping make SoylentNews successful as an independent entity that is fully funded by its users. In case you don't remember, here's the rundown of subscription features:
- Subscriber badge (toggleable)
- Early access to features
- Exemption from ads if we ever run any
- Full comment histories/access to database-intensive operations
- No rate limiting or spam filtering
You can purchase a subscription on your user panel, or by clicking this link. Subscriptions are $20/year, and you can be reminded via email when that period is coming to an end via subscription settings. All payments are currently processed by PayPal, but we hope to add new merchant support in the future.
Here's hoping to seeing lots of stars in the near future!
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by zafiro17 on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:41PM
I totally support this site, its community, and its mission. Happy to put my money where my mouth is. Guess now we'll know how it all shakes out, eh? Is this the beginning of a two-echelon class system? Kidding.
Oh wow, here's the members' only bathroom with Chanel#5 in the toilet - sweet! Why, yes, I would like a glass of champagne, thank you. Be a dear and park my Mercedes around the side, will you? So tell me, Jeeves, what do the plebes do with their time, mmmm?
Wow, even the articles look better with a little yellow star next to them!
Lifting my glass of champagne to the folks who have put in blood, sweat, and tears to make this site run - that's the people coding, writing, editing, commenting, and promoting this little pocket of green awesomeness (green with the BadA55 theme FTW). This wasn't easy, but it was worth it. Long live SoylentNews!
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday August 28 2014, @08:43PM
Zaf - that was nicely done with a touch of humour. But not all of the posts in this thread have been in quite the same vein. Members realise, of course, that running any site must have a cost associated with it and many have asked about contributing to help out with covering these costs. It was discovered that accepting donations was not as straight-forward as one might at first think - there were all sorts of legal hoops that had to be jumped through just to enable SN to accept donations. But offering subscriptions appears to be the least contentious way of enabling members to help support the site.
No-one is being coerced into subscribing - and there is no limit to what the site offers to non-subscribers compared with what we have been offering for the last 6 months or so. But, for those that wish to do so, they can now subscribe - and to ensure that it is not a donation we offer the potential to be able to access some of the stories and comment data more directly in the future. The site only exists because of the community. Everyone contributes to its success - by submissions, comments, coding, buying swag, or simply by page visits.
None of the 'staff' take a salary as was mentioned in one post, nobody takes anything out of the system other than essential running expenses and we all do what we do because we, like every other member of this community, believe in what we are trying to achieve.
Anyway, I discovered that the VIP toilet key is not much use in France - it only gives me access to the same roadside bush that everyone else seems to urinate against! However, my dream is that one day, whilst urinating against the aforementioned bush, I will realise that the person standing next to me is also wearing a SN t-shirt, with his Mercedes key dangling from his unobtainium key ring....