My own experience is that they've been solid throughout. Certainly better than many other options, at a time when the technical press has been generally disappointing.
I asked last year and was told 404 is the source of too many copycat low quality posts and they have a paywall. In the year since, a bunch of their original reporting has hit the front page and driven interesting discussions.
404media is shadowbanned from HN for nebulous reasons. The mods should really revisit this policy: they've been doing some great reporting recently.
A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote (404media.co)
so some slip through.
But: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co sure has a lot of [dead]
I believe they all start out dead, and enough people have to vouch to make the article visible and commentable.
Don't forget that the mods tried to remove the reference to a16z from the title on that one.
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My own experience is that they've been solid throughout. Certainly better than many other options, at a time when the technical press has been generally disappointing.
Has there been any mention of reasoning behind it?
I asked last year and was told 404 is the source of too many copycat low quality posts and they have a paywall. In the year since, a bunch of their original reporting has hit the front page and driven interesting discussions.
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Because they've literally been creating stories about A16Z.
I've posted about some and they just get instaflagged or hidden.
There's nothing nebulous; there's no workaround for 404media's articles.
Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 - Sept 2015 (160 comments)
It seems to work for me? https://archive.ph/sr0sd
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