Opening up LWN [LWN.net]

Opening up LWN

Posted Sep 29, 2005 3:32 UTC (Thu) by kevinbsmith (guest, #4778)
In reply to: Opening up LWN by pm101
Parent article: An LWN status update

I don't have strong feelings one way or the other about the two-week block. Perhaps you could do a quick study of a bunch of subscriber-only articles to try to judge which ones would have been useless after a week, which after two weeks, and which are more timeless.

I do share the frustration about the inability to send someone a link. One "simple" tool would be to allow me to set some kind of reminder, where lwn would send *me* an email when a particular article becomes available to non-subscribers, at which point I could forward the link to some folks who might be interested.

Another fundraising idea would be to create a forum where starving hackers could post requests for subscription sponsorships. Those of us with extra cash and a desire to support both lwn and the community could sponsor specific individuals.

Delayed link sending

Posted Sep 30, 2005 7:21 UTC (Fri) by mitchskin (subscriber, #32405) [Link]

Rather than setting up a reminder, and then one or two weeks later trying to remember who it was I was going to send the link to, I'd rather just have a tool that would automatically send the link once it was publically available.

I like Salon's idea of having non-subscribers sit through a full-screen ad in exchange for a day's worth of access. On the other hand, they certainly haven't gotten (m)any /. links lately.