I don't think it was a good decision, to have a paywall for locals communities, where the community has to charge & pay, to simply exist in any meaningful way.
It might be better to give the communities a paywall that doesn't mean they have to pay to see comments/make comments on friend's community page's posts..
In other words @RubinReport, we could all be behind the same paywall, paid for by RR adding $1:00 - One Dollar to the subscription charge for RR subscribers, & that paywall could then set us free to charge or not charge followers to our community pages, as it was in the beginning..
I recently experienced difficulties making payments to Rubin Report, so they've locked me out of my supporter status, I used the "contact us" to send them messages about this, hoping they'd sort it out for me while awaiting payment. I've been with RR since 2020, so I assumed they'd sort it out, they have not responded & although payment has now been made, my status has not changed back, to say I'm disappointed is a huge understatement.