Sunpaper paywall

[canis]

I think it's off. I'm not getting any subscribe pop-ups anymore.

And you.....

[mockingbird]

I just got it.

[canis]

I just got it.

Oh, ok. I wonder why I'm not getting them? I used to...but not since they turned it off during Sandy.

....Woops.....I spoke too soon.... it just popped-up.

[Eastside Terp]

what's a paywall ..............

[canis]

what's a paywall ..............

.. not getting any of the "do you want to subscribe" pop-ups this a.m.

[Rael]

Think they will ever admit it was a mistake and rescind it? The decrease in traffic and ad revenue potential has to far exceed the small monetary gain of the pay wall.

[demopublican]

Think they will ever admit it was a mistake and rescind it? The decrease in traffic and ad revenue potential has to far exceed the small monetary gain of the pay wall.

I would love to know how many people pay for access.

[mockingbird]

Think they will ever admit it was a mistake and rescind it? The decrease in traffic and ad revenue potential has to far exceed the small monetary gain of the pay wall.

I don't think they think they made a mistake.

Nats and Locals get alot of traffic, I think.

[Fang]

I don't think they think they made a mistake.

Nats and Locals get alot of traffic, I think.

No way. There's not nearly the amount of traffic there used to be. The Ravens forum barely moves even on game day. Nats is the same posters every day. If they had a way to separate the pay wall from the forums they really should do that. They could probably charge more for advertising on the forums and still maintain the pay wall for the regular site.

[The Eternal White Belt]

I would love to know how many people pay for access.

Does anyone?

[Sprightly]

Does anyone?

I do.

[Eastside Terp]

.. not getting any of the "do you want to subscribe" pop-ups this a.m.

no, maybe my computer is broke .......

[Eastside Terp]

speaking of paywalls, just saw this on twitter .......


Washington Post reportedly considering adding a paywall in 2013

but, they have this part right ......

Home subscribers to the print edition would have unfettered access to The Post’s Web site and other digital products.

looks like its just getting cranked up .......

In addition, Warren Buffett, a former longtime Post director and a confidant of Post chief executive Donald E. Graham, has bought most of Media General’s local newspapers through his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, and said that he would introduce paywalls throughout the chain.

“Anyone who focuses on the newspaper business should be focusing on one company: Berkshire Hathaway,” Graham said earlier this week at a media conference hosted by UBS. “Warren has bought more than 80 papers . . . and he’s been waving his arms saying, ‘I’m not done.’ ” He added: “Warren’s strategy is: put in a strict paywall and focus on local, local, local stuff.” Graham said that The Post would keep its local focus, including political coverage, as it covers Washington “as a city and as the capital of the United States.”

[smallwoode]

Another "United: We are Losers" thread.

[Eastside Terp]

welcome back perdie ......

[octoburn]

No way. There's not nearly the amount of traffic there used to be. The Ravens forum barely moves even on game day. Nats is the same posters every day. If they had a way to separate the pay wall from the forums they really should do that. They could probably charge more for advertising on the forums and still maintain the pay wall for the regular site.

They now get far more comments and hits with comments posted after the articles themselves than they do from these forums. And your observation about Nationals is quite true and is now largely limited to a handful of posters, most of which is trolling. There is an almost total lack of humor anymore.

And now Locals has largely been ruined as of this week due to the same thing ~ except that posters have begun spamming that forum instead of reporting something they dislike. It's become childish to a ridiculous extent. Posters can't even laugh at themselves.