Twitter doesn’t show threads to people who are not logged in (e.g. if you don’t have an account). Shaming people for not reading what they can’t see (or even know exists) is unfair. Using archival sites doesn’t work as a bypass like on newspaper sites.
Not to mention people on Firefox, which from what I have read on HN might not even have access to it at all.
Twitter links should probably be downranked on HN until (if/when) they return to being more accessible.
With a paywall you know what you’re missing or not. With Twitter that’s harder to determine, which I’d argue is worse. But I wouldn’t say either of our opinions is objectively correct.
and HN is mostly fine about those.
It is explicitely fine with paywalls which have workarounds.
Comments
Twitter doesn’t show threads to people who are not logged in (e.g. if you don’t have an account). Shaming people for not reading what they can’t see (or even know exists) is unfair. Using archival sites doesn’t work as a bypass like on newspaper sites.
Not to mention people on Firefox, which from what I have read on HN might not even have access to it at all.
Twitter links should probably be downranked on HN until (if/when) they return to being more accessible.
I had no idea Twitter was doing that. That sucks.
However - I find that less onerous than a paywall and HN is mostly fine about those.
With a paywall you know what you’re missing or not. With Twitter that’s harder to determine, which I’d argue is worse. But I wouldn’t say either of our opinions is objectively correct.
It is explicitely fine with paywalls which have workarounds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html