Starting from the beginning, I have (at least) read through every story and every article, every week, since 1998. Especially in the beginning, there was a lot in each article I didn't understand. I would try to do some digging into those topics.

One way or another, just the weekly exposure to absolutely top notch technical writing was foundational to me.

When newer folk would ask me how to really get good with Linux, I would always point them to LWN.net.

I've been a subscriber since the beginning. That small investment is the least I can do given the incalculable value LWN has brought to me.

Happy to pay the new price, even though I can only afford the cheapest tier.

The LWN site has been improved in a number of ways, with features like articles in EPUB format,

This is the single biggest feature that makes me keep my subscription going. The convenience to read longer form offline on my ebook reader makes me wish all other long form content websites would have the same.

I'll have been an LWN subscriber for 22 years as of next week, and am very happy to continue to be one. It's easily the most worthwhile subscription I currently have.

I forgot to renew my subscription a while back and it has been a bit busy, will renew now.

If you have any professional connection at all to Linux then $11/mo is an absolute bargain!

I -- and perhaps many -- would be interested in buying an archive of all the past issues (as PDFs and XML sources).

You could also license to AI corps.

Also thanks to the editors and mods updating the title so people don't have to change their underwear.

better late than never, and especially good now that every single day most of us are reading so many words that don't mean anything

prices have changed considerably

I'm not doubting it, but I wonder what costs have changed for them?

Update: received it after ~40 minutes.

I wish every journalism topic (politics, science reporting, arts , etc) had an equivalent independent trade publication.

Since the 2022 price change, according to the undoubtedly reliable numbers from the US government, consumer-price inflation has added up to almost exactly 20%.

Enjoyed the sarcasm, but does anyone actually believe these numbers? Is there a more reliable metric that isn't affected by Goodhart's law and can be trusted?

I highly recommend subscribing if you can. It's really one of the great ones and it's still oldshool style, not a lot of fluff, just nerds presenting nerdy news.

I been self hosting many tools, one them an ebook manager called `kavita`, and downloading the epub format and consuming it via kavita would be interesting.

I think the issue there is that they're based in the US so they have expenses in that economy too, but it will lead to less foreign subscribers I think. There seems to be a lot of pricing disconnect between the US and Europe. Like when a vision pro is $3500... I've never even spent more than 2400 euro on a car in my life.

But I wish them luck. I don't know the site very well, I've only seen a few links from there here. I'm a big Linux user but I don't really follow specific sites except aggregators like this one.

There are few things we like less than raising prices, which is why we have done it so rarely. It would be far better to keep LWN as inexpensive as possible and make it up in volume. Subscriber growth has stalled, though, in recent years, making that strategy unworkable for now. We are working on schemes to bring in more subscribers again, but that is a long-term process; getting there requires some short-term help.

I can see why they’d want to keep bumping prices occasionally (to keep up with inflation). Why do they need plans to increase subscriber growth, though, are they not currently profitable? It seems like they must have hit a steady-state by now.

Many know they want it for free. If you don't pay at all then it will force LWN to begin to place ads on their newsletter to cover the costs.

There is no realistic in-between other than actually paying for your services.

I have no opinion since I'm not a subscriber, just adding for clarity since the title is ambiguous.

https://smackernews.com/item/38106227 HN

I don't think there news articles are even worthy enough to be paywalled at all this days.

A note on subscription prices from LWN

Not enough of a spine to say "We're increasing LWN subscription prices"?

Also, nice editorializing in the submission: "A Note from LWN". Yeah, a "note".

It outputs content and the users read the articles. I think the value of the model is not big.

The most important knowledge and experience is from your own practice, thinking, experiment, and reality.

If the price is too high, many users maybe think it is not worthy of the price, especially because there are many free and useful knowledge on Internet.