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Personally I'd appreciate it if: 1. We stopped allowing paywalled site links on Hacker News 2. We linked to archived versions of those paywalled articles, so th

Personally I'd appreciate it if: 1. We stopped allowing paywalled site links on Hacker News 2. We linked to archived versions of those paywalled articles, so that all of us can read them

Qub3d 5y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989). More here (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...).
jjulius 5y ago
Someone else posted the link[1] to the archived version of the article right around the same time you made your post. Further, you could always take the article's URL over to archive.is yourself and share it in the comments if someone else hasn't done it yet, which would probably take just a few seconds longer than it took for you to post your comment. :) [1] https://archive.is/RFOHF https://archive.is/RFOHF
jrockway 5y ago
I like the Wall Street Journal links. I pay for a subscription, but often miss interesting articles. Seeing it on HN lets me extract max value from my subscription. Sure, it would be annoying if you had to pay $30 a month to read every article on HN. But... it's the Wall Street Journal. Many people subscribe to that, that's how it exists.
- rsj_hn 5y ago
  Same. I don't mind paying for content, which is the flipside of ruthlessly blocking ads. And I don't have time to read the WSJ site each day.
quickthrowman 5y ago
Here, now you can post the archived article: https://archive.is https://archive.is Protip: turn your phone sideways to solve the captcha

Personally I'd appreciate it if: 1. We stopped allowing paywalled site links on Hacker News 2. We linked to archived versions of those paywalled articles, so that all of us can read them

Qub3d 5y ago

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989). More here (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...).

jjulius 5y ago

Someone else posted the link[1] to the archived version of the article right around the same time you made your post. Further, you could always take the article's URL over to archive.is yourself and share it in the comments if someone else hasn't done it yet, which would probably take just a few seconds longer than it took for you to post your comment. :) [1] https://archive.is/RFOHF https://archive.is/RFOHF

jrockway 5y ago

I like the Wall Street Journal links. I pay for a subscription, but often miss interesting articles. Seeing it on HN lets me extract max value from my subscription. Sure, it would be annoying if you had to pay $30 a month to read every article on HN. But... it's the Wall Street Journal. Many people subscribe to that, that's how it exists.

rsj_hn 5y ago
Same. I don't mind paying for content, which is the flipside of ruthlessly blocking ads. And I don't have time to read the WSJ site each day.

quickthrowman 5y ago

Here, now you can post the archived article: https://archive.is https://archive.is Protip: turn your phone sideways to solve the captcha