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I for one won't upvote a paywalled article.

dredmorbius 3y ago
That's one hypothesis I'm considering. It'd be interesting to, say, look at a number of sites which have gone paywall and see how that impact on HN front-page posts. Off the top of my head, some of those would be: - NYTimes - WSJ - Quora - WaPo - LA Times If anyone has a handy list, especially with dates, I'd appreciate it. Here's the top 40 "general news" sites with barplots by year. I know that NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LA Times, telegraph.co.uk, and possibly a few others have paywalls and may have implemented them over this period. Pastebin to spare readers here another monster text post, expires in a month: <https://pastebin.com/raw/nmNXyE8G https://pastebin.com/raw/nmNXyE8G>
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  Paywall dates: - NY Times: ~August 2019 - BBC: none - The Guardian: none - Washington Post: June 2013. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5829206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5829206> HN traffic actually rose. Tightened markedly in 2018: <https://web.archive.org/web/20171213135245/https://reason.com/volokh https://web.archive.org/web/20171213135245/https://reason.co...> - Reuters: April 2021 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26820053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26820053> - NPR: none - CNN: none - Slate: 2015 (International readers) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9821492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9821492> - Vice: none? - LA TImes: Paywalled, 2012. <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/la-times-paywall_n_1299997 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/la-times-paywall_n_1299997> - CNet: none - Yahoo: none - SFGate: 2015 <https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/2sj78h/death_spiral_sfgate_now_behind_paywall/ https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/2sj78h/death_spira...> - cbc.ca: none - CNBC: none - guardian.co.uk: none - vox.com: none (though discussed) - salon.com: none? Mixed bag on impacts, though I suspect paywalls going up or tightening has a lot to do with FP story trends.

That's one hypothesis I'm considering. It'd be interesting to, say, look at a number of sites which have gone paywall and see how that impact on HN front-page posts. Off the top of my head, some of those would be: - NYTimes - WSJ - Quora - WaPo - LA Times If anyone has a handy list, especially with dates, I'd appreciate it. Here's the top 40 "general news" sites with barplots by year. I know that NYT, WSJ, WaPo, LA Times, telegraph.co.uk, and possibly a few others have paywalls and may have implemented them over this period. Pastebin to spare readers here another monster text post, expires in a month: <https://pastebin.com/raw/nmNXyE8G https://pastebin.com/raw/nmNXyE8G>

dredmorbius 3y ago
Paywall dates: - NY Times: ~August 2019 - BBC: none - The Guardian: none - Washington Post: June 2013. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5829206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5829206> HN traffic actually rose. Tightened markedly in 2018: <https://web.archive.org/web/20171213135245/https://reason.com/volokh https://web.archive.org/web/20171213135245/https://reason.co...> - Reuters: April 2021 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26820053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26820053> - NPR: none - CNN: none - Slate: 2015 (International readers) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9821492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9821492> - Vice: none? - LA TImes: Paywalled, 2012. <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/la-times-paywall_n_1299997 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/la-times-paywall_n_1299997> - CNet: none - Yahoo: none - SFGate: 2015 <https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/2sj78h/death_spiral_sfgate_now_behind_paywall/ https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/2sj78h/death_spira...> - cbc.ca: none - CNBC: none - guardian.co.uk: none - vox.com: none (though discussed) - salon.com: none? Mixed bag on impacts, though I suspect paywalls going up or tightening has a lot to do with FP story trends.