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I always have reservations about clicking LWN "subscriber links" since I have not subscribed. Perhaps it's worth waiting a week before posting these? LWN's pay

by nequo 4y ago

I always have reservations about clicking LWN "subscriber links" since I have not subscribed. Perhaps it's worth waiting a week before posting these? LWN's paywall is dropped at that point.

pabs3 4y ago
LWN folks are fine with subscriber links being posted here, they view it as a form of advertising and they get subscribers from it.
- nequo 4y ago
  That is good to know. But I looked this up and what I've found is Jonathan Corbet saying in 2010 that "occasional" posting of subscriber links is fine.[1] I am not Jonathan Corbet so I don't know what he considers occasional. But this is the fourth LWN subscriber link posted in the past 7 days, and the eighth in the past 14 days.[2] For reference, LWN currently lists 10 paywalled posts, the oldest from 13 days ago.[3] Those posted on HN are nearly every paywalled article that they have. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033 [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1663790400&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1662494400&page=0&prefix=false&query=lwn.net&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1663790400&dateRange=custom&... [3] https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/
  - pabs3 4y ago
    Agreed, the number of subscriber links is kind of high. If it still gets them extra subscribers, then probably its ok. I guess they are monitoring the numbers on that.
rascul 4y ago
You might consider subscribing to get more of LWN's content as it's released. Some time ago, the wait for the paywall removal for information that was relevant to something I was doing then and possibly not a week later is what finally got me to subscribe.
cozzyd 4y ago
In that case, why not subscribe? It's not expensive (they even have tiered subscription levels...) and it's awesome.
- cesarb 4y ago
  > In that case, why not subscribe? Not the OP, but a possible reason: not all people have credit cards. In fact, the very first thing I did once I finally decided to get a credit card (which, frankly, is only really necessary to buy things from outside my country; within the country, there are other convenient payment methods) was to subscribe to LWN. Before that day, other than a brief year in which a friend had paid for my LWN subscription with his credit card, I mostly waited the one week to read the paid articles (and, in fact, I'm still subscribed to the LWN mailing list which automatically tells you whenever a paid article becomes free).
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argulane 4y ago
If you have the means then I would recommend subscribing https://lwn.net/subscribe https://lwn.net/subscribe they are pretty much the only foss news outlet that published so high quality articles.

by nequo 4y ago

I always have reservations about clicking LWN "subscriber links" since I have not subscribed. Perhaps it's worth waiting a week before posting these? LWN's paywall is dropped at that point.

pabs3 4y ago

LWN folks are fine with subscriber links being posted here, they view it as a form of advertising and they get subscribers from it.

nequo 4y ago
That is good to know. But I looked this up and what I've found is Jonathan Corbet saying in 2010 that "occasional" posting of subscriber links is fine.[1] I am not Jonathan Corbet so I don't know what he considers occasional. But this is the fourth LWN subscriber link posted in the past 7 days, and the eighth in the past 14 days.[2] For reference, LWN currently lists 10 paywalled posts, the oldest from 13 days ago.[3] Those posted on HN are nearly every paywalled article that they have. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033 [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1663790400&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1662494400&page=0&prefix=false&query=lwn.net&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1663790400&dateRange=custom&... [3] https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/
- pabs3 4y ago
  Agreed, the number of subscriber links is kind of high. If it still gets them extra subscribers, then probably its ok. I guess they are monitoring the numbers on that.

rascul 4y ago

You might consider subscribing to get more of LWN's content as it's released. Some time ago, the wait for the paywall removal for information that was relevant to something I was doing then and possibly not a week later is what finally got me to subscribe.

cozzyd 4y ago

In that case, why not subscribe? It's not expensive (they even have tiered subscription levels...) and it's awesome.

cesarb 4y ago
> In that case, why not subscribe? Not the OP, but a possible reason: not all people have credit cards. In fact, the very first thing I did once I finally decided to get a credit card (which, frankly, is only really necessary to buy things from outside my country; within the country, there are other convenient payment methods) was to subscribe to LWN. Before that day, other than a brief year in which a friend had paid for my LWN subscription with his credit card, I mostly waited the one week to read the paid articles (and, in fact, I'm still subscribed to the LWN mailing list which automatically tells you whenever a paid article becomes free).

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argulane 4y ago

If you have the means then I would recommend subscribing https://lwn.net/subscribe https://lwn.net/subscribe they are pretty much the only foss news outlet that published so high quality articles.