I subscribed to BAR for many years. I don’t know why I let it lapse.
I’ve been a subscriber and let it lapse at least once before, I think I’ve re-upped recently. I couldn’t get the online access to the archives to work, and my inquiry about it went unanswered, so my view is, that part’s a crock.
The mag stopped being monthly quite a while back, but the fact that it has survived in the no-more-printed-materials era (a.k.a. 1984’s memory hole is being imposed, imho), and survived its founder’s death, shows it has a strong following.