WallHop
Consumer and social
paywall bypass reader
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
7 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 19 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Execution: 0 for, 8 againstIdea: 2 for, 6 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy-to-remember domain
From 1 comment
I like the domain. It's very easy to remember ... and intuitive. p.s. I've added it to SaaSHub too https://www.saashub.com/wallhop-alternatives
stanislavb on HN
Works on many major news sites
From 1 comment
Well dang, I thought it would just be a worse archive.today (yes the owner doesn't like that it's used for piracy so much), but wallhop works on wsj, ft, and nytimes. It's quite…
Cider9986 on HN
Objections
Does not work on some sites such as WSJ and Reuters at times
From 3 comments
It's not working on WSJ.
darkstar999 on HNDoesn't even work for Reuters. https://tinyurl.com/2np5tmys
nujabe on HNwsj no longer works: "enable javascript and disable ad blockers" same on archive.is; archive.ph and three different browsers.
pseingatl on HN
Raises legal and ethical concerns about bypassing paywalls
From 3 comments
If newspapers make money literally by writing this content and asking people to pay for it, how is this website not just stealing their content wholesale?
sergiotapia on HNThat's cool. Also, you gon' get sued.
pluc on HN> Paywalls pay for journalism. If there’s a paper or news site you read every day, please subscribe to it. WallHop is for the one-off article someone texts you from a site you’ll…
silcoon on HN
Source code not yet public
From 2 comments
Why not open source? You modified GPL-3 ladder; I don’t know whether it’s legally required, but I feel it’s morally expected and important in practice (since yours may get taken…
armchairhacker on HN1. Your contact email bounces 2. Wallhop gets dumb when seeing double-slashes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206819
pluc on HN
Requests
Endpoint listing most requested articles
From 1 comment
can you expose an endpoint for “most requested articles” list, would be great
sauravt on HN
Add bug reporting to the page
From 1 comment
I do not see a way to report a bug on the page.
shmoil on HN
Questions
What happened to 12ft.io and whether legal action caused it
From 3 comments
Why did 12ft io go away?
demibabs on HN12ft? <looks around> Does anyone use that? Not around here, archive.today standard. It's fast, nice. But trustworthy? There's so little indication that the content hasn't been…
ChrisArchitect on HNWhat happened to the 12ft.io project?
oso2k on HN
Why archive.is is more reliable than other methods
From 1 comment
In your blog you say: > If every method fails, fall back to an archived copy from archive.is. What do you reckon is the reason that archive.is is most reliable? I've seen the…
mr_mitm on HN
Alternatives named
archive.is
From 2 comments
This is great, straight into my bookmarks. I've been using archive.is but it's much more of a faff.
SmashDan on HN12ft? <looks around> Does anyone use that? Not around here, archive.today standard. It's fast, nice. But trustworthy? There's so little indication that the content hasn't been…
ChrisArchitect on HN
Magnolia1234 bypass extension
From 1 comment
Install it now, thank me later: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads
Beijinger on HN