alt Hacker NewsI really doubt the implementation difficulty is the actual reason. It's not hard to have an extra table of specific article permissions.
I really doubt the implementation difficulty is the actual reason. It's not hard to have an extra table of specific article permissions.
Probably true, it's more likely that it's a variation on "there are only a small percentage of people willing to pay any amount of money for an article, so if we offer one-time options, a large enough percentage of people who would have otherwise subscribed with recurring revenue instead pay one-time so their lifetime value is lower"