As an optimistic anecdote, this being the second such article in a week that I've really enjoyed just pushed me over the edge and I'm now an LWN subscriber. Hopefully I'm not the only one.
I really wasn't familiar with LWN prior to seeing links to subscriber-only articles semi-frequently on HN, and honestly these days I'm embarrassed I didn't know about it sooner as I'm a Linux sysadmin and LWN's weekly edition is just about exactly the news I want to keep up with my job.
Welcome to the lwn.net subscriber gang! I'm an ordinary desktop linux user and have been a subscriber for many years. It has been, and still is, my go-to site for in-depth news on linux, whether on kernel matters or on the linux ecosystem.
I'm the one who posted this article and so far, I have not had any warning mail from lwn.net about posting subscriber only content. But I do take care to try to only post content that I believe is of interest to HN.
I really wasn't familiar with LWN prior to seeing links to subscriber-only articles semi-frequently on HN, and honestly these days I'm embarrassed I didn't know about it sooner as I'm a Linux sysadmin and LWN's weekly edition is just about exactly the news I want to keep up with my job.