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Seems like HN is killing tons of 404media.co URLs. I emailed @dang asking him what's up but haven't received a response yet. https://i.imgur.com/5UdDc5E.png ht
by chaps 1y ago
Seems like HN is killing tons of 404media.co URLs. I emailed @dang asking him what's up but haven't received a response yet.
https://i.imgur.com/5UdDc5E.png https://i.imgur.com/5UdDc5E.png
- tptacek 1y agoIt looks like these are mostly dupes getting killed, with a second principal component of 404 Media stories that are chiefly political. For posterity I'm wrong about this! 'chaps is right.
- chaps 1y agoDang responded saying, "That site is behind a signup wall, or at least mostly has been, without any consistent workaround. That makes them off topic for HN per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=paywalls%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...." Seems to be outdated info, since archive.ph works just fine in the same way that it works with WSJ, etc: https://archive.ph/CfALb https://archive.ph/CfALb
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