Seeking Alpha: News & Analysis 12+

Free Version Turned into Garbage

And this was by design. Primarily because of the massive percentage of “CLICKBAITY” links to stories that are not accessible without signing up for yet ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION. This is the same reason I quit clicking on anything to do with The Motley Fool. I would much rather see advertisements.

Paid version might be worth it but too expensive given much of the content is written by skillful shills attempting to advocate for their position even when it is wrong-lots of competition out there and SA being “agnostic” representing a multitude of viewpoints, isnt in this regard always helpful enough to justify the price when you can find similarly misleading and helpful voices on social media.

Deleted another money greedy app

Had to delete another money greedy app. I got tired of the flood of notifications and inability to read the volume of articles because of their high price. I get the same articles on the Apple News even though I don’t pay for either Apple News or Seeking Alpha. While I admit the article in Apple News is a limited snapshot, I feel it gives me the gist of the article, where as Seeking Alpha simply puts up a block from allowing me to see only their wonderful deal of paying a small one time monthly fee with a reoccurring fee for subsequent months being 6 times higher.

Everyone says Seeking Alpha is a great source of information, but from what I can see is it is simply an opinion base. Why would I want to pay &30+ a month for an opinion? I see lots of people writing articles on something they profess they don’t even own. Some are cautionary tales, while others support buying a company, yet even when these people say a company is a strong buy rating, they always say I don’t own this company. Sounds kind of fishy when they promote a great deal and are lacking the confidence in buying the product themselves.

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Thank you for your feedback, Player-11111111111. We value your input as we strive to enhance our app. Please email us at appsupport@seekingalpha.com with more details so we can investigate further. Thank you!

SA used to be great; going the wrong way now

I want to like SeekingAlpha so badly, but their recent monetization choices are killing the exact feature which made this platform SO great.

I used to use SeekingAlpha to read the bull/bear case on stocks I’m considering investing. The free content is pretty good, but the great differentiated features of SA vs other investing analysis platforms is 1) the contributor articles/ideas (this hasn’t changed), and 2) the commenters. SeekingAlpha’s average commenter is well above-average intelligence for internet comment sections (event financial sites). There’s robust bull/bear debate, along with helpful info exchange and learning which happens in the comments… and the reason that home-game analysts come in and comment is because it’s free (or, at least it used to be).

Now there’s a “monthly limit” of articles which free users can see, which seems to be stifling the good/robust commenting activity. And that’s been driving users like me to search for alternatives. Could free users be monetized by ads or what about an inexpensive base package which allows visibility to anything but original contributor-generated content? Surely so.

Ответ разработчика ,

Hi, Billy. Thank you for your feedback! We changed our Paywall policy in January 2021. The good news is that you can still access any article on any stock, even without a paid subscription, though there is a monthly limit to how much you can read. Feel free to share your thoughts by writing to us at appsupport@seekingalpha.com or calling 1-347-509-6837. We'd be more than happy to help you with any additional questions.