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You know what would be a really nice HN feature.. when you submit a URL it can be flagged as "pay per view" and I can have a profile setting to filter them out.
by xd 5y ago
You know what would be a really nice HN feature.. when you submit a URL it can be flagged as "pay per view" and I can have a profile setting to filter them out.
- encryptluks2 5y agoHN... Where all the techies use a janky website up talk about their non-janky web projects.
- tenebrisalietum 5y agoNo bullshit != janky. Janky is 50MB of Javascript that doesn't load all at once so things jump around ocnstantly at the start, only to display 1/3 of the text of an article before you insert 3 ads but I won't know that until I click past the cookie warning and the "Please subscribe" popup that happens when I scroll more than 100 pixels.
- encryptluks2 5y agoYou assume that when I say janky that I mean JavaScript. Sites can not have JavaScript and still be featureful when it comes to features and privacy. In this instance I was specifically talking about rate limiting responses and some of the censorship I see here.
- dcposch 5y agoExactly the opposite, actually. HN is an exceptionally clean, minimalist website. Instant page loads. No ads, no "accept cookie" banner, no autoplaying media, in fact no media of any kind, no engagement-maximizing algorithm. Quality moderation via dedicated human mods. Then everyone comes here to talk about their Svelte ESnext 69.0 x serverless kubernetes 3d metaverse animated gif NFT marketplace subscription-based growth hack horror they're about to inflict on the public.
- encryptluks2 5y agoYet you would never see me talking about JS being a positive when it comes to web design, but there is still a lot to be desired when it comes to HN.
- yellow_lead 5y agoThe ads are the sponsored YC job postings.
- rowanG077 5y agoHN is by far the least janky website I use.
- fouc 5y agoSimplest solution would be to write it at the end of the title. Something like [paywall] or (paywall) perhaps? It would be nice if HN posts could include an "alt link" which would be paywall free. (like an archive.is link or similar)
- ricardobeat 5y agoBeen asking for this feature for half a decade.
- lostgame 5y agoThe sad thing is; the admins here have, for reasons I can’t understand - taken a massive stance on not only allowing paywalled links, but featuring them; which is obviously a lot worse. There’s a ton of opportunities here to use (paywall), or simply use an alternative link. The admins here don’t, won’t; and sadly, worst off - discourage comments like this. I will never read a paywalled article on HN, by principle alone. I don’t come here to see information I have to pay for. I don’t think anyone here does.
- elzbardico 5y agoI think it is fair that a forum maintained by an startup incubator would not like to encourage things that go against the monetization strategies of internet companies. I think it is even very gentle of them not to censor comments with links to archive.is
- Thorentis 5y agoWould be pretty easy to make a browser extension that does this, based on a list of known pay wall sites. Could even have a "create archive.is link" button for submitting the URL to archive.is if you wanted to leave it as a comment, as many people already do.