SoylentNews

juggs writes:

This is an RFC to the Soylent community as a whole.

At this point it is clear that we are spending more than we are taking in subscriptions - by roughly 1/3rd (33% for the less fractioned). And that's just running costs.

We are taking steps to minimise our costs but there is only so much to be cut when running a site like this. Our Treasurer sums up our next 6 months here: http://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/Finances [soylentnews.org]

What we have in progress is a revised Subscription functionality that allows for 1, 6 and 12 monthly subscriptions. That may not sound like a big deal, but the new functionality will allow you to pay what you think it's worth. i.e. we set a minimum, if you want to pay more fill your boots, really please do.

This RFC is about setting what those minimums should be.

To be clear, SN will never paywall people from content - at best you're getting a little happy star by your name if you subscribe, we're not offering treats for bungs or any other influence over what we publish.

What we are doing is trying to address previous comments that subs were too cheap and people wanted to give more but couldn't while still making our content open to all.

So 1, 6 and 12 month subs - what should be the entry point and what are they worth to you?

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