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Comment by mckoss | Hacker News Reader

Can we stop posting articles that are behind a pay wall? What's the point of sharing if the link won't work for many readers?

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You could pay.

It is a radical solution, and one I haven't implemented for myself yet. But there are some reasonably serious arguments for it, and it would solve your immediate problem.

True enough. I was just proposing, for a site like HN that is about open discourse between members, that posting content that excludes many of our members is a poor choice.

Or you could always open NYTimes in incognito mode.

I think NY Times content is frequently good enough that the inconvenience of various methods of getting the content makes it worthwhile.

dang, the moderator here, has said many times that paywall links are acceptable on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924753

Clear cookies.

I greatly dislike paywalls, and disagree, strongly, with HN's tolerance of them. But as paywalls go, the NYTimes' is rather permeable.

And for the obligatory "but writers/publishers need to be paid":

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

A $100/year fee would cover all existing Internet advertising paid by the 1 billion richest inhabitants of the world (roughly: US, EU, Canada, Japan, Australia, NZ).

A $500/year fee would cover all advertising, full stop. Again, for the 1 billion richest inhabitants.

I would prefer indexing this (progressively) to income.

You can bypass the paywall for most of them by clicking the web link and visiting from Google search results.

I know that. So why not post the search link instead - i.e. one that will work for everyone? Or HN could implement a "search on Google" feature to get around it. Requiring readers to a) know this hack and b) perform it on a mobile device keyboard is the ultimate in poor usability.

You don't need a keyboard. Click on the comments link and then click on the link marked "web" at the top of the page in the comments. There is a search link.

I've never noticed the "web" link before - that works for me (should this not be "search", btw). Thanks.

Should be Google, I believe.

No, just open in incognito.

NYT doesn't have a pay wall for the first 10 articles per month.

So now I'm left playing link roulette - maybe we could only allow nyt links for the first 10 days of the month!

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