hardwalled? you mean paywalled?

I just mean a paywall without workarounds (as the sibling comments have pointed out).

Paywalls with workarounds are ok on HN, paywalls with no workaround are not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

I assume a hardwall is not merely circumvented by css/js shenanigans.

I’d guess hard, as opposed to soft (dismissible/based on number of articles read), paywall.