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Use a special phrase to mark paywalled articles on HN
This is a suggestion. I believe we should use something like (paywall), (pw) or (pay) in article titles when they are paywalled. People do it for pdf. People do it for video. I believe it should be done for paywall too. This is an obvious way to inform readers that there's no point in clicking that link if they don't have a subscription.
- Tomte 8y agoNo, we don't do it for PDFs and videos. HN itself adds those tags. Which don't count against the character limit. Your tag would. I'm not terribly into the publication year in parentheses, but I have accepted that. Even though it's a real nuisance when submitting lots of "historical" stuff. But I'm strongly against anything making submissions more cumbersome.
- detaro 8y agoPaywalled articles on HN are supposed to have a known workaround for the paywall.
- miki123211 8y agonot all of them do, especially now, when outline has problems.
- thedevindevops 8y agoCan you find an archive link for the article you're looking for? Or altering your browser's User Agent String to Google's crawler will usually let you index the content.
- krapp 8y agoThere's no need for that. As soon as someone posts a paywalled article, someone will start a thread complaining about it.