[initplus]

I would be "happier" to pay a subscription to an aggregation platforms like hackernews or reddit to access archived articles that are linked to these sites. In turn a proportion of that could be passed on to the underlying publishers that I actually visit. I have nearly zero interest in reading articles that aren't linked to from an aggregation site.

I don't want to read theguardian.com, or nytimes.com, or washingtonpost.com, or bloomberg.com, I want to read news.ycombinator.com. Paying an individual subscription to every possible underlying site that could be linked to from news.ycombinator.com is a non-starter.

[nithril]

I would be happier to pay a small fee per article I want to read. But the norm seems a monthly subscription.

[iudqnolq]

This is a common statement, but every attempt to sell that service has been a dismal failure. See for example blendle.

[initplus]

Nearly every attempt at starting a new aggregation site like hackernews or reddit has been a failure.

I’m not going to switch to a new website where no community exists just so I can pay for news articles. To work it needs to be integrated into an existing, successful aggregation website.

[jacquesm]

Blendle failed because they went into competition with the papers whose content they reproduced.