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He was One year In operating experience Edge With subscriptions, so far things are going well – but we’ve heard a lot of feedback so far, and we have some exciting changes in store to try to improve this thing. We’ve met our subscriber goals for 2025, and 85% of you are choosing annual plans, the kind of permanent, long-term relationship we can count on as we hire more reporters, take on more problems, and pay for green screen for David’s podcast. (Just kidding, this is his real house. We think).

We’ve spent a lot of time this year trying to iterate our subscription and make it more valuable. We’ve launched full site access, a lighter advertising experience, two exclusive subscriber newsletters, and RSS feeds. Since then, we have added Most requested new feature with ad-free podcastsadded comment badges to subscribers, and began testing Joint AMAs. We have also expanded our range View the exclusive newsletter for subscribers with Mohsen, Step back, organizerand InstallerAll of which are essential reading.

We’ve also been able to hire more great reporters and editors: Hayden Field, Tina Nguyen, John Higgins, Dominic Preston, Terrence O’Brien, Steve Bonifield, Marina Galperina, and Todd Haselton all joined our team this year, providing in-depth reporting, sharp analysis, cutting-edge news, and occasional pieces that stand out above everything else on the site. (We still are Edgeafter all.)

As always, the main thing is what you buy when you sign up Edge Our industry-leading ethics policy, meaning we don’t allow companies we cover to influence our coverage, buy fake reviews, or interfere with our newsroom. This kind of editorial independence from the pressures of needing brand deals is at the core of what we do here and is increasingly rare in our tainted media ecosystem. We greatly appreciate the overwhelming number of people who have told us how much they value our ethics policy and have chosen to subscribe.

(An equally large number of you pay for ad-free podcasts and full-text RSS — rest assured, we love you too.)

We’ve also heard a lot of feedback about our mix of free and paid stories, and when a paywall will come up. So, we’ll be enhancing our free product to make things clearer and make visiting our homepage every day more valuable, even if you’re not a subscriber. The Storystream news feed with follow-up features will remain free, as will the free daily newsletter. And now we’re adding a new module to the home page featuring three great stories to read for free every day. The rest of our work on the site will still have a paywall, so at some point, you’ll have to subscribe if you read too much. But our goal is for the homepage to be a great free tool for everyone, not just a collection of paywalled stories. We have a lot – a lot — Thoughts on this, we will be making several changes to how the homepage and site work in the coming year to try to achieve this.

In fact, depending on how this all plays out, we plan to be more aggressive than ever in 2026: more journalism, more podcasts — more edge. It’s going to be wild. I’m so grateful to everyone who subscribed last year, and grateful to everyone who reads and shares what we do here every day.

Edge He’ll be 15 years old in 2026, and remarkably, our weird little site about mobile phones is still going strong, still finding an audience of weirdos who come and hang out with us every day. I say this a lot, but we got this far because we never chased metrics, never took money to say what others wanted us to say, and never shied away from caring deeply about technology and how it makes people feel.

I hope you can Support usIf you can’t now, we will work hard to remain your community and gain your support in the future.