The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is changing their publishing schedule to 6 times a year from 11 times a year. The new issues will be bigger, but not twice as big.
This makes sense on one level, because it saves the publisher money in print and postage costs. On another level, the readership is getting less fiction per year.
A few writers will not be able to sell to F&SF because they will publish fewer stories each year so it is bad news for those trying to break into the pro markets.
I recently tried to read an issue of F&SF. It was mostly not to my taste. I wanted to review it, but I could not find enough positive things to say about it. Not that it was bad, but I just did not enjoy the stories as much as used to. Magazines tend to have a variety of stories in order to appeal to different tastes and as a result no one likes all of the stories and often I don’t like any of them.
I have some ideas about how a major Spec-Fic zine can leverage its current circulation in order to increase the paid readership. I will have to write up an article some day. Unfortunately there is not much money in the reading public.