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It has the full explanation behind a paywall, which may as well be non-existent. No, thank you.

Hi there, author here. I have removed the paywall for this and all future posts. I am new to Substack, and still experimenting with the proper format. This change has been in my mind for a while, so I went and removed the paywall from all of my posts, and left the paid subscription as a supporting option.

Thank you for doing this and also somehow popping in here

Hey, just wanted to chime in that your post is nice.

Now, I wish substack had support for math. Adding formulas in images isn't that bad (and practically unavoidable if you want to draw functions - unless you write js), but, still.

Strange—I don’t get a paywall and I don’t even have a substack account.

It cuts off at "Here is how they did it." for me. Had to enter (made up) credit card details to access the rest of the post.

http://web.archive.org/web/20221229110741/https://thepalindr...

Your archive.org link still shows the same paywall for me.

Here you go... https://archive.vn/vkHFU

same here: NO paywall and I don’t have a substack account.

Is it a regional restriction?

edit: Thanks to the author for removing the paywall!

This is the first substack I've seen with a full paywall, not just an engagement nag.

You missed the whole Domonic Cummings UK thing then.

Journalists were moaning about 'having to' subscribe to his SubStack. It was actually the first I heard of the place and I thought it was the norm to charge.

Substack authors can choose which posts to paywall, and how far into the post to end the preview.

It's interesting in that the paywall can be trivially circumvented... by asking a paid subscriber to forward the email of the full post. Costs nothing, but in practice, almost never happens.

> Costs nothing, but in practice, almost never happens.

Any information people consider important enough to share with the whole world will not be paywalled. Consequently, any paywalled information must not be important.

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