On: Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall...

[kuschku]

If a link is not available to everyone, link to archive.org, or archive.is, or Google webcache.

This means everyone can read it.

[dang → kuschku]

People do that in the threads, which is helpful. It's usually better not to supplant the canonical URL of a story in its link.

This problem will get a lot easier when we have a way to group the related URLs for a story. That's something we are eventually going to work on. Indeed, I wonder if it couldn't turn into a broader solution to the paywall question.

[nkurz → dang]

The Google scholar approach might work as a format. Official link as the hypertext, publicly accessible link (if available) in the right column. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1273530321270058317...