&gt; The recent trend in paywalling<p>Is there a recent trend? The situation has seemed stable to me for a long time.<p>The last big shift was the New Yorker switching to a ponywall (i.e. letting incognito windows work) which, whatever it did for their economics, made the web and HN way better. Nautil.us recently introduced a paywall, but they love HN and are letting HN traffic through.