Waiting for AOO

Posted Aug 3, 2017 23:53 UTC (Thu) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: Waiting for AOO by cesarb
Parent article: Waiting for AOO

Do subscriber links posted to hackernews as top level stories really fall into the intended usage pattern for subscriber links? Legitimately asking, it doesn't fall into what I'd expect to be appropriate, personally.

Waiting for AOO

Posted Aug 4, 2017 0:17 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

It seems common enough (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=SubscriberLink&sort=byD...), though only corbet can tell for sure.

It would have been better to post the link directly to their mailing list, but unfortunately doing so as a first-time poster would be treated as a provocation. HN is a neutral place.

Waiting for AOO

Posted Aug 4, 2017 0:30 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

corbet has said in multiple HN comments that it is fine.

Subscriber links

Posted Aug 4, 2017 0:34 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

HN can drive a lot of traffic; a link that sits on the front page for a while can bring tens of thousands of non-subscribing readers to LWN. Experience suggests that some of them will subsequently choose to subscribe. I wouldn't want to see all of our subscriber content there, but an occasional link does us nothing but good as far as I can tell.

Subscriber links

Posted Aug 4, 2017 11:30 UTC (Fri) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link] (1 responses)

Ahhhh, I wish record companies had this refreshing outlook on sharing.

Subscriber links

Posted Aug 8, 2017 22:19 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Smart ones do ;-)