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I know this has been brought up before, but I'd like to toss in my two cents. For HN posts that link to paywalled articles, I would like to suggest a [paywall]
by jawns 12y ago
I know this has been brought up before, but I'd like to toss in my two cents.
For HN posts that link to paywalled articles, I would like to suggest a [paywall] tag be appended to the title.
This will indicate that for someone like me, who doesn't subscribe to The Economist, I would have better luck skipping the link itself and instead going straight to the HN comments, where (hopefully) a user with access to the full text will be kind enough to post a brief summary. (Presumably, the OP should have access, and I would like to gently suggest that it should be he or she who writes the summary.)
I would also like to suggest that if you notice a post with a [paywall] tag, and someone has gone to the trouble of summarizing it, you vote that person up even if you would ordinarily not take the trouble.
Finally, I would like to suggest that these summaries self-identify not as tl;dr (too long; didn't read) but te;dr (too expensive; didn't read).
- minikites 12y agoMany paywalls are unpredictable, though. In this case I was able to read the whole article and I didn't see any indication of a paywall.
- edwintorok 12y agoWhere is the paywall or has the link been changed? If I click on the link I'm able to read the article and I didn't subscribe/pay for anything...
- yalooze 12y agoDoes incognito mode work? Not saying there shouldn't be a tag, but that way you know immediately how to access the article without having to rely on someone copying the contents into hn comments.