<story><title>Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS</title><url>https://developer.washingtonpost.com/pb/blog/post/2015/12/10/moving-the-washington-post-to-https/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n0us</author><text>The Washington Post and the New York Times both seem to have excellent engineering teams and both of their websites are in my opinion some of the best news sites that I&amp;#x27;ve seen on the web. (Vox is also very nice in my opinion though they do not have ssl support apparently)&lt;p&gt;I would gladly pay a netflix-like subscription that gives me a &amp;quot;pass&amp;quot; to top news sites with no advertising. I just don&amp;#x27;t want to manage a dozen subscriptions to sites and it&amp;#x27;s difficult to choose between the different options that they offer like &amp;quot;tablet, web, paper&amp;quot; &amp;quot;web, paper&amp;quot; &amp;quot;tablet only&amp;quot; etc. Just take the difficulty away and give me access to the content in whatever format I want, with an addon fee for print delivery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benten10</author><text>I said this on HN yesterday, but I&amp;#x27;ll repeat again since it&amp;#x27;s VERY relevant.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like the subscription, as you mention too!&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d like even more (for voluntary payment) is a subscription that divvies up my monthly &amp;#x27;budget&amp;#x27; according to the % of the time I spent on different sites. Say I spend 50% of my browsing time on Nytimes, 30% on HN and 20% on New Yorker, and my monthly allocated budget is $20. Then NYT gets $10, HN gets $6, NYer $4, etc.&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps, a monthly budget where the money is deducted for subscription sites, per article&amp;#x2F;time whatever. Once my budget is finished, I see &amp;#x27;normal&amp;#x27; web like everyone else does.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really care about ads, but maybe people who don&amp;#x27;t want to see ads could pay like, 2x as much, etc.&lt;p&gt;There doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be a lot of innovation in this field. Perhaps it&amp;#x27;s the difficulty of integrating everything in one place?&lt;p&gt;Edit after reading the comments: Google contributor just removes ads instead of getting you &amp;#x27;special pass&amp;#x27; right? Do the site owners get paid for the &amp;#x27;eyeballs&amp;#x27; from the subscribers?</text></comment>
<story><title>Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS</title><url>https://developer.washingtonpost.com/pb/blog/post/2015/12/10/moving-the-washington-post-to-https/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n0us</author><text>The Washington Post and the New York Times both seem to have excellent engineering teams and both of their websites are in my opinion some of the best news sites that I&amp;#x27;ve seen on the web. (Vox is also very nice in my opinion though they do not have ssl support apparently)&lt;p&gt;I would gladly pay a netflix-like subscription that gives me a &amp;quot;pass&amp;quot; to top news sites with no advertising. I just don&amp;#x27;t want to manage a dozen subscriptions to sites and it&amp;#x27;s difficult to choose between the different options that they offer like &amp;quot;tablet, web, paper&amp;quot; &amp;quot;web, paper&amp;quot; &amp;quot;tablet only&amp;quot; etc. Just take the difficulty away and give me access to the content in whatever format I want, with an addon fee for print delivery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chris_va</author><text>&amp;gt; I would gladly pay a netflix-like subscription that gives me a &amp;quot;pass&amp;quot; to top news sites with no advertising.&lt;p&gt;This has been tried without much adoption (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;contributor&amp;#x2F;welcome&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;contributor&amp;#x2F;welcome&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Really the problem is that newspapers make very little online, even with high numbers of ads, compared to print.&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t cost effective to run an online-only newspaper (with all of the extraneous costs that go into producing &amp;quot;news&amp;quot;, and not &amp;quot;blogs&amp;quot;). Thus, they have a strong incentive to crazy subscription models instead of streamlining everything.</text></comment>