This isn't very surprising and for $10 that's well worth it if the quality of their articles stays where it is or even manages to improve with this decision. I'm hoping the subscription decision goes the way of NSWFcorp and now Pando for them. Well worth it for a full year of well written and informative articles if you ask me.
I wanted to reach out to Nautilus and see if they'd be interested in a partnership with Hubski. I think they could benefit from implementing DvH. I wanted to wait to approach them till after our rewrite/API. I want rob05c, insomniasexx and forwardslash to all be in a good place to ensure we can handle such a thing. But, they're the ideal candidate imo. I love their publication. flagamuffin, I would definitely pony up $10, I agree with nowaypablo it's not too shoddy.
If you all made that happen it would be an amazing move, I think it would grow the site a lot while bringing in the kinds of people you want to bring here culturally. One of the professors from my college/alum has written a few articles which have been posted here. There are certainly a lot of potential positives, but what would be potential difficulties?
I'll never misspell the word shoddy again. However you set up that partnership, I'd definitely be interested and willing to cough up a 10 for it.