Here are five reasons you should subscribe:
Ad free, premier page layouts.
Ars Premier subscribers don’t see banners ads on our site or forums. Less distractions, more room for content. We even run a reduced-height header on every page, without the need to fit an ad we can make it smaller to get the content you want higher on your screen.
We know you could just run an ad blocker. We want to offer people the chance to get an even better experience than ad ad blocker provides, while still supporting the content you love. Cut out the middle man and we all win.
View a live article on Ars with the Premier layout actived to see how it works.
Single page, downloadable views.
Subscribers can view long, multi-page stories on a single page right in your browser. We even give you the option to make single-page mode your default view every time you visit.
In addition to being convenient, our single-page view supports offline-reading applications like Instapaper. We also offer not only a downloadable PDF for offline viewing or printing, but access to our full PDF Library, with a repository of back stories. This is a popular option for subscribers who want to save particularly useful stories for later reference.
Full text RSS feeds.
If you’re an RSS power user you’ll really appreciate our Premier RSS feeds. They’re full text, so you can read the entire story without leaving your RSS reader. And just like browsing the Ars site the feeds are completely ad free.
Once you subscribe your personalized full text feeds will be available here.
Join our subscriber-only forums.
We honestly think we have one of the most vibrant communities on the internet. In addition to our technical forums, which are free to all, we also maintain an inner sanctum. Here in the Premier forums (The Lounge, The Soap Box, and The Velvet Room) subscribers can discuss whatever they feel like. Hobbies, jokes, popular culture, politics, relationships, it’s all fair game.
Because these forums are restricted to subscribers only for posting access the quality of discourse tends to be more than a notch above your typical internet conversation. Think of it as the antidote to YouTube comments.
Check out The Lounge for an idea of what the subscriber forums are like.
Exclusive subscriber content.
Access our subscriber-only content, including news, analysis, interviews, and deep technical articles. A regular subscriber-only feature we run are live, moderated chats with industry professionals across a wide swath of fields and interests. If you can’t make the live chat we post transcriptions later so you can see what was discussed.
In addition to front page content subscribers also gain access to our Editorial Roundtable forum. There we discuss stories we’re working on, take suggestions for topics to cover, and generally open up the behind the scenes editorial process at Ars.
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