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Paywalled, so how did it go to the frontpage if most people can't read it?
by BiteCode_dev 2y ago
Paywalled, so how did it go to the frontpage if most people can't read it?
- re-thc 2y ago> if most people can't read it? By reading the headline
- lapcat 2y agoThis. Many HN users don't read the articles. Some are even unapologetic about it, explicitly admitting that they're here only for the comments.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoSome of us rarely read the articles. They're often, frankly, a waste of time. And it's hard to tell just by the headline whether it's worth reading or not. The comments often tell me whether the article is worth reading faster than the article would. (And some of the time the article is paywalled, and some of the time it's a video, which makes it harder to skim.) And often I learn more from the comments than I would from the article.
- WithinReason 2y agoClicking the link hits a paywall, but copy-pasting it gets me the article.
- quesera 2y agoMost paywalls are easy to bypass. Most HN readers know this. Some of us also have FT subscriptions though. That'd be an interesting poll. What % of HN readers (poll participants) subscribe to the big paywalled story sources? NYT, FT, The Economist, ...
- 1over137 2y agoSee the archive.is link that someone also provides.