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Michael Carter III's avatar

I appreciate the expectations setting that has taken place the entire duration of this newsletter. As for non-politics talk: "Part 1" of your WSOP Main Event experience was posted 2 months ago. Would love the Part 2 before your memory of the week fades further!

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James Corwin's avatar

I would ABSOLUTELY pay separately to have the sports forecasts back, especially for any matches where there is (at least very likely to be) only one winning team or athlete out of two (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis, rugby, cricket, etc etc). The more sports on there the more I'd happily pay. I'd literally subscribe for several hundred dollars a month if they were all on there.

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Karl Garrison's avatar

I enjoy your posts, and I would be willing to upgrade to paid for a lower cost than $80/year. If that rate works out for you then more power to you, though.

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Andrew G. Benson's avatar

I don’t currently intend to upgrade to paid, but I really appreciate your candor in setting expectations for what a paid subscription would entail.

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Arnie Gordon's avatar

Nate- it appears that 538 has abandoned Sports coverage - I loved the statistical perspective - Any chance you’ll revive some of that?

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David Horwitz's avatar

I just paid for a membership, but I don’t know how to login or where to find you

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Wil's avatar

If become a paid subscriber, can I ask you why you decided to make the objectively wrong decision in the Burrito Bracket of choosing that den of thieves in San Francisco, Là Taqueria, over the majestic bliss that is Al and Bea’s in Los Angeles?

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CD Bush's avatar

You will limited your readership, along with very honest, productive feedback.

I do understand and wish the very best.

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𝐃𝐮𝐕𝐀𝐘 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐗's avatar

Lemme know when U reach 538 PAID SUBSCRIBERS.

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Ian Tingen's avatar

Congrats on this Nate!

FYI: I experienced a point of UI friction / conversion friction when I clicked on “Manage Subscription” from within the iOS app: it told me I couldn’t manage my sub from the app!

I’m happy to go online to switch to paid, but thought you should be aware that your funnel might have this in it. Cheers!

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Richard Gadsden's avatar

This is true of all apps on phones because of Apple App Store / Google Play Store rules.

If you buy any purely digital good from an app, then the app must put the payment through the Apple/Google payment system which means that Apple/Google get 30% of the payment.

You'll notice that you can't buy Kindle books from either the Kindle app or the Amazon app.

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Ian Sherman's avatar

All the best on the next chapter! Not sure it matters, but I, for one, really appreciate the non-politics posts. Sports, poker, food, media, AI/tech, etc. All great.

Politics is fine too, but I wonder if, because the other topics don't generate as much "heat," they also don't generate as much engagement on average. I'm but one datapoint, but I hope this provides a small amount of "audience-interest-pressure" in the direction of less inherently emotional topics.

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Jim's avatar

Food: would love to see more statistical posts on food. Nutrition vs. Lifespan. Loved your post on kinds of restaurants and cities.

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Helen Geraghty's avatar

I've paid for 3 gift subscriptions (for one month each) but your website won't let me send them.

Helen Geraghty

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Alex Levin's avatar

How do you pay for a subscription? I am in the app, and clicking on manage subscription does not give me an option to switch from free to paid. When I am reading a free post and I encounter the paywall, still no obvious way to pay. I suspect you are losing paid subscribers by not making it easy and obvious to pay!

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Bill Stapleton's avatar

Damn! Going round in circles trying to become a PAID subscriber. BUTTON, BUTTON, who’s got the BUTTON??!!

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Matthew Skywalker's avatar

Me too

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Richard's avatar

I just did a paid subscription. is the "Periodic paid-subscriber-only Q&A threads" available? Can't find anything.

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