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Confessions of a Paywall Journalist

• DrScump 11y ago
  already posted and upvoted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508914
  • nkurz 11y ago
    And more recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10530149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10530149 But it's a great article that deserves some discussion, which it hasn't had yet.
    • buserror 11y ago
      Well might be a great article, but any website that shows me a popup when I land on it gets closed without any further click...
  • dang 11y ago
    On HN we don't consider a post to be a duplicate if the story hasn't had significant attention yet. Otherwise too many stories would languish unseen. We're working on a way to let users indicate which posts are dupes of one another by submitting their HN ids or urls, so this hopefully won't be confusing for much longer.
    • pma 11y ago
      Too many articles are duplicated in Hacker News recently.eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532349
      • dang 11y ago
        I don't think it's changed recently? But we're working on it.