Oh noooo!

[flavio]

The word on the street is that Anandtech forums are going subscription. This may not affect you but I post there a lot.

Besides I'm not really even sure what to think of this practice, are they selling out? They routinely have 500-600 or more members LOGGED IN at a time. I'm sure they will lose a ton of them, but it may be worth it in the end as far as the money goes.

 

[Q]

What kinda money are they talking?? did they say?

 

[s4]

I know how you feel Flavio. I left Ars Technica after they made it a subscription site.

 

[flavio]

Well, a slight false alarm. The subscription is an option for more features. $30/year.

Linky

 

[s4]

Here is a link that tells about it: http://arstechnica.com/etc/subscribe/subscribe-1.html

I think only some of the forums are by subscription, but I don't know for sure because I left shortly after they started doing that. There are too many FREE bbs's on the web than to have to pay to get into one.

 

[Q]

I don't think that sounds too bad. It's not like you have to pay to view or post...and it beats the crap outta those annoying monitor consuming ads they got at HWC.

 

[s4]

In order to post in their Lounge forum, you do have to be a subscriber.

 

[Acid]

My dad subscribes to a forum. The online community is actually being considered a community now. And I don't really blame some forums. If they have 500+ members logged in at once, that'd be havoc on your connection. Think of the money they have to dish out for that site now.

 

[Inkara1]

I know I wouldn't want to have to pay to use a forum that I'm there for one specific problem, so that I can get my problem fixed and be on my way.