Otoh, without archive.today a substantial % of HN posts would be unreadable for nearly all of the audience.

I doubt it.

You may have mixed it up with archive.org.

I suggest you double-check that. Archive.today/archive.is is the one which bypasses paywalls and makes unreadable content readable, not archive.org

	▲	henearkr 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah! You may well be right. Thanks. That's bad then, to depend on that for paywall bypass... I hope very much that the situation evolves into a more satisfactory one.

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