Does anyone here have access to the NY Times?

Meaning, does anyone here subscribe to the NY Times or have a password that they use?

I ask because today, for the first time, when I look at articles in the NY Times, at the bottom where the comments are, it used to say “comments” or something, and you’d click on it and it would open a sidebar with the comments. Now, for me, it says “Request to read comments” and when you click on that, it says ‘request to read comments’ or ‘cancel.’

I haven’t ever commented on anything, other than clicking “like” or whatever they call the thumbs up.

I am just wondering if it’s like that for everyone. I am also wondering why it is this way and never used to be. If you have access to the NY Times, can you look and see if you get the same thing that I am getting?

I tried googling it but wasn’t coming up with any answers.