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Thoughts on linking to paywalled sites? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to be clear that this is not a reaction to any specific post, just something that I'm thinking about as I'm browsing around.

What do people think about linking to paywalled content? I find it frustrating, personally--but only if I'm not currently paying for the material, because if I am then I'm logged in and likely won't notice.

Maybe it would be nice to have a guideline, a suggestion, for people posting links to such content as top-level posts to provide a summary (like on this post) for those who don't have access?

Also, I apologize if this is something that's been discussed already and decided upon; I'm quite new to Beehaw / Lemmy, and this is on my mind so I figured I'd ask :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It would be nice to have an option to flag something as "paywall" or "limited paywall" in the UI when creating a post. But I also don't want to clutter up the UI too much, and I don't know if enough users would use the feature to justify adding it.

If it were possible to add flair to posts, that might be a good way of doing it, and meet other user requests related to flair. Not sure how easy it is to add that, but I would definitely use that feature if it were available.