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It's not a paywall, just a marginally less obnoxious demand to subscribe before seeing the content. At least Substack waits for you to get 3/4 through
by passwordoops 3y ago
It's not a paywall, just a marginally less obnoxious demand to subscribe before seeing the content. At least Substack waits for you to get 3/4 through
- grishka 3y agoAt least Substack doesn't break if you disable JS for it.
- bilal4hmed 3y agoIm not sure what the problem with a paywall is? Dont want to see ads, care about privacy but also dont want to pay for content ??
- rebolek 3y agoIf you need to pay for subscription to read about how subscription is ending, that's sort of amusing. Anyway, this article isn't paywalled and can be read without subscription.
- joshjob42 3y agoAds are annoying, and virtually nothing is valuable enough to bother paying to read a single article for. I subscribe to a number of substacks by writers I know produce reliably good content all the time, but random articles on HN ain't it chief.
- grishka 3y agoImplied contracts aren't a thing. If someone sends me some trash along with the content I requested, I'm absolutely free to configure my own device to ignore the trash and only display the useful content. I've never seen paywalls neither on Medium nor on Substack, but I've seen plenty of annoyances like Substack's "hey, did you know this is a mailing list, subscribe to it" in-your-face modal and Medium's "sign up blah blah" thing that takes up half my viewport area.