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> The recent trend in paywalling

Is there a recent trend? The situation has seemed stable to me for a long time.

The last big shift was the New Yorker switching to a ponywall (i.e. letting incognito windows work) which, whatever it did for their economics, made the web and HN way better. Nautil.us recently introduced a paywall, but they love HN and are letting HN traffic through.

>>dang+(OP)
I certainly didn't see all this paywalling back in the days of Slashdot. Whether that was due to paywalling not being a thing or to Cmdr Taco's good discretion, I can't say.

>>xiaoma+63
Oh, I see. We're looking at different time scales. I was thinking the last couple years.