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by r-w 1496 days ago
If there is a document web, it needs to have paid subscriptions baked in. Like a 404 page but for those who aren’t paying subscribers, and maybe even a way to show an article preview.

That’s the only way monetization would work, other than selling personal data or relying on goodwill. And like it or not, profitability is a necessary part of writing for the web, for many people and almost all organizations.

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> Like a 404 page but for those who aren’t paying subscribers, ...

We got HTTP 402 and nobody used it because it was never standardized (I guess).