As a note: I really wish that HN would include a history of title and/or link changes for an article, so that when you go to a thread an people are complaining about some problem with one of them (or are reading the article with an interpretation based on the old title), it becomes easier to tell what they were referring to by checking against the history. As it is, in a large number of the cases in which a title or link is changed, a large portion of the discussion no longer makes sense as it was referring to the old title and/or link.
All of the solutions are sub-optimal, but preserving a history would be nice, at least.
Sorry to the good people of Milton Keynes and their fine local paper!
It probably isn't usually, anyway!
Source: I grew up with MK as my local city.
No paywall.
Same works with a lot of news sites that don't show paywalls on search traffic, but do on other referrals.
Here is a URL from the search result:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
""" YOU'VE REACHED A SUBSCRIBER-ONLY ARTICLE. Would you like to become a subscriber for 50% less for the first 12 weeks?* Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Australian's content in minutes. """
Can anyone suggest a better URL?
Edit: Sorry, it seems I got this wrong and the original post was just fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8993631. (That might mean it was other sites ripping off MKWeb and not the other way around. So I'm glad we didn't change the URL after all.)