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I find hiding all of these articles behind a walled garden a little distasteful. I remember the times when I couldn't have afforded access to such information.

I find hiding all of these articles behind a walled garden a little distasteful. I remember the times when I couldn't have afforded access to such information. Back then, this kind of stuff would have been published in a magazine, and that magazine would have been on the rack of my local bookstore, where I could have flipped through it to decide if it was worth my money.

alphabravoB 5y ago
That magazine would have charged a subscription fee right? You can "flip" through MDN's other (free) articles, or the excerpts they've provided here to decide if it's worth your money. How is reading free content on your phone harder than walking to a bookstore? (Also this seems like a paywall, not a walled garden.) I remember those times too, but there were no magazines for me to flip through to learn CSS float-based/table-based layouts. I had to look at ::shudders:: W3Schools.
chias 5y ago
> I find hiding all of these articles behind a walled garden a little distasteful. Did you click the link? The second blob of text, above the fold and not easy to miss: > Nothing is changing with the existing MDN Web Docs content — this content will continue to be free and available to everyone. We want to provide extra value through premium content and features to help make MDN self-sustaining, on a completely opt-in basis. Again, nothing is changing with the existing MDN Web Docs! The experience you describe at the bookstore mirrors the proposed experience for MDN Plus rather well, actually.