I just happened to be looking at the user cp, and noticed my subscription expiration date. This may be the first time I’ve thought about the subscription since I paid for it, which got me to thinking -
Will there be any kind of notification that our subscriptions are about to expire? Automatic email or something? Or do I just have to try real hard not to forget?
I checked the subscription sticky and did a quick search of this forum, but didn’t see this question answered.
Thanks,
We dunno yet.
Someone will think about it, sometime before (or slightly after) the expiration date, but since that won’t happen until March or April, we got time. We’ll let you know when we know.
Choices include (among others) a pop-up when you try to sign on, email, or a quacking duck on your front porch.
I vote for the duck.
Likewise, what with it being a New Year etc, I too only recently thought - “Ooh watch out for when SDMB sub will be needed - ah but not till March or April”. But I KNOW (as does my electricity company, 'phone company and other horrors) that I tend to remember things far in advance of the correct time, then forget when I ought to remember.
Besides, I think i would like a quacking duck. I could it along to a mausoeum not far away that has some sort of record-breaking echo. 
PS - the CelynCat would like a duck too. Is there a reduced subscription rate for demanding kits?
I vote for the duck, and slightly after. I can picture it now.
[wavy dream-sequency fade]
*Sometime in April, Earthworm Jim sits composing a thoughtful, awe-inspiring post. He clicks the submit button, and smiles. But no! His witty and cromulent post is rejected! His brow furrowed as he tries to comprehend the meaning of the error message, he answers a knock at the front door. A duck greets him.
“Quack!”
The light of understanding dawns in Jims eyes.
The payment has come due.
*
Cromulent?
Dear Cecil in heaven, now we’re adding words to the language from cartoons!
What person in er right mind would listen to a cartoon character?
Why a duck?
Spoken like a true graduate of Wassamatta U.
Anyway, I anticipate an email a few weeks in advance of my account’s expiration date. I also feel confident I’ll be able to resubscribe without problems.
That’s Wossamatta U.
Hey, wassamatta you?
I would too, but I don’t have an echo chamber.
But…I don’t have a front porch. How will the duck come to me?
I echo the sentiment - I like the duck idea, too.
But tell ya what - I’ll accept an emailed, virtual duck in lieu of the real McCoy – thereby saving the Reader quite a few $$$ (Have you any idea how much it would cost to snail-mail a duck from Chicago to Tel-Aviv!? Or even if it air-mailed itself? The mind boggles!).
In return, all I ask is for my subscription fee to be deducted from the saving accrued 
Dani
Actually, I would bet you’ll see a nag screen of some sort when you sign in at some point. You’ll know when it’s time.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
How about something like this:
THE END IS NEAR
REMIT NOW
Less expensive, easier to deliver, and quacks a lot better than a tapir.
As I understand it, there’s nothing to stop us renewing *right now * … while we think of it.
But I won’t 'cos I want a visit from The Master’s Duck.
Mmmmm … Duck a L’Orange
You guys quack me up.
Just don’t let out subscriptions taper out without warning us.
Y’all could do what I just did - resubscribe now while you’re thinking of it.
I was thinking more along the lines of
PANIC