Donation versus Subscription
This is a repost from something I seen elsewhere on Reddit.
Notice that people that say they won't pay a subscription but will give a donation to a "free" ANR/ABF website, there is one that take donations with the owner asking for them at $50 pop to keep the site running but those people giving a donation will balk at a subscription site.
It seems that if people don't give a donation to the "free" site it is more likely to shut down after awhile because most people won't want to make multiple donations, and after awhile it may close due to lack of new funds. while with the subscription site there is less chances of it shutting down due to lack of operating funds.
There will always people that won't want to get a donation or a subscription, but it seems that they forget they are using site resources that need to be paid, so eventually it will cost the donation site more issues getting the funding needed to keep afloat versus the subscription site.