What Should You Expect From This Change?
This subscription thing is an evolution for SOFREP.com. We’re looking for ways to continue to work with our great sponsors, while also remaining free of their editorial oversight (‘cuz not every sponsor wants to be listed on ‘Been Around the World Twice‘). The subscription requirement will reduce the number of visitors and commenters on our website at first, but we hope it boosts the quality of commenting. And we’re pretty sure our sponsors will recognize that our content is compelling.
For Team Room, we are asking our writers to each provide you with two posts per month, as well as to hang out and contribute to Forums and Shoutbox. Being that we’re combining the websites, we think this makes a lot more sense and should be fun and easy for the authors. I’m asking the writers to give depth and insights about their posts – extra details, talk about the behind the scenes, or write about their military and SOF experiences – anything unique and beyond what they publish on the main site. You should see a lot more activity from them.
You folks deserve something extra for your support and we aim to deliver that to you.
You should also expect a better billing experience. We’re adding regular credit card processing so you can move to that if you don’t want to go through PayPal. And we’re providing options for upgrading and downgrading accounts, so when funds are tight maybe you’ll choose to downgrade rather than exfil completely.
Mobile – we’re getting rid of the new ‘responsive’ mobile experience and going back to an improved version of the mobile design we used before. Our mobile stuff is too damn slow now and the updated mobile is screaming fast. I think you’ll like it and I can’t wait to get it into your hands.
So for now that’s it. I may post another update tomorrow night, and you should also look for a newsletter update just to keep you informed.
Thanks as always for your time and contributions to SOFREP. Brandon, Jack and I really appreciate it – your time means a lot to us!
– Charlie
UPDATE: And by the way, new Team Room members will be paying 12.99. Y’all pay $9.99/mo and we won’t raise that for 3 years. THREE years. So that’s pretty good, right?
UPDATE 2: Brandon has taken to calling Team Room the SOFREP Underground, so there may be some re-branding going on at some point. Team Room… Underground… Mafia… SOFREP.
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