Is it? I can open it even without an ad-blocker. Try deleting your cookies for the website. They might allow only a limited number of free articles to read.
It is paywalled. When you scroll down you have to subscribe to keep reading. The section "What Made Me Nearly Give Up on Zig" is closed behind a red big banner that says "keep readying with a 7 days trial".
To the thread creator:
Please just stop, no one wants to subscribe to read your opinion, experience on certain languages
I am actually the author, and I didn't start this thread. People have to decide for themselves whether it is worth reading or not. Lots of people subscribe to Substack to read experiences, opinions on various subjects.
Nobody will put in the effort to write these kinds of articles over time unless they can make some money on it either through subscriptions or ads. Personally I trying to find a balance by letting people read quite a lot for free, so it is worthwhile to look. Subscription can be had for free on a trial period, so you can can try reading my stories and see if it is worth it and cancel before you got to pay.
It is a certain mark of entitlement that people think they should be given all the content in the world for free without paying for it. Why should writers do all their work for free? You expect to walk into a magazine store or bookstore and grab whatever stuff you want for free and walk out?
Of course not. Content creators have to mix free and paid to make things work. One writes free stuff for marketing but you cannot only do that. Most people don't live of trust funds ;-)
You can sign up for a free trial and cancel before any payment is required. I know that can be annoying, but as a writer you have to have some way of getting people interested in trying a subscription. Not easy to find a good balance for both readers and writers.
