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Ask HN: "Marking" Paywalled Articles Posted on HN
I do not like wasting two clicks on articles that sound interesting but I cannot read because they are behind a paywall.
What do my fellow HN users think? Should they be autoflagged or marked as paywalled?
Should contributors post a summary that they have themselves written, and add the link elsewhere in their post for those interested? I do think that a smidgen of extra effort would be valued greatly by all.
I know there is HN guidance on this, and I have previously and regretfully posted paywalled articles, but keen on seeing is anyone has any new or better ideas.
- DivingForGold 9mo agoI fully support your opinion.
- ramon156 9mo agoMost of the time there's an archive.is link in the comments
- DivingForGold 9mo agoUnfortunately archive articles don't work for the worst offenders: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times (FT) and Bloomberg most notably. Paywalled sites should be automagically highted in RED when posted in HN, by HN script.
- pwg 9mo agoArchive links work for some percentage of WSJ, FT and Bloomberg. And for the ones that don't work, if you wait a while (few hours to a day or two) and try again, many of the ones that did not work begin to work after the delay. Whether the article will still be valuable to read a day or two later depends upon the content.
- GoGo415 9mo ago[dead]
- GoGo415 9mo ago[dead]
- chrisjj 9mo agoI don't like it either. Manually marking would be error-prone. I'd prefer a bot to spare readers the current labour of adding the archive.is copy (where available).
- tim-tday 9mo agoWe should fork an open source browser and anytime a page bait and switches (providing anything but the article) the browser automatically loads the archive page instead. I’d switch to that browser instantly.