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Thank you, Medium is ruining my life.
by kactus 6y ago
Thank you, Medium is ruining my life.
- tonystubblebine 6y agoThere's got to be a better HN policy-level solution than this. This author put their article behind a paywall because they get paid for that. And here we are, a pretty well-to-do community, stealing it. I don't see how it's our choice to do that. If this author wanted to share it with us, they have a non-paywall article link they could share (or they would have published it outside the paywall). We could just not allow any paywalled content in the feeds. That would include the NYT. Or we could mark it so that people knew not to click through if they didn't have a membership. Or... I bet several of the big publications, Better Programming which I run and Towards Data Science would be fine reflexively posting the non-paywalled version here. They key though is that the authors really deserve to be part of that discussion.
- ipsocannibal 6y agoFor reference see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html for the question regarding paywalled content.