[mejthemage]

There's a huge need for subscription bundles. I'd gladly pay $20/mo for access to a bunch of big names, even if I'm limited to like 60 articles per month combined across those sources.

Instead I just don't pay anyone, turn back when I encounter a paywall and look for someone's summary if I'm really interested.

[orpheansodality]

Isn’t that the value-prop of Apple News?

[basch]

Apple News is a bit of a discovery pain in the neck. If I have a 5 year old Atlantic article, I can’t just click the article and have it open in Apple News. I can’t search for it. If the article is any older, the magazine won’t appear at all.

[stetrain]

In my experience Apple news relies entirely on the app for reading articles, so if you are on a computer without the app or following a link that doesn't auto-redirect to the app then you still hit the paywall.

I'd rather have a system that was just a cross-website web account.

[QkPrsMizkYvt]

There used to be an app called scroll (https://twitter.com/tryscroll?lang=en), which got bought by Twitter, which is now part of subscription, but only for the top articles. Informed.so is doing something similar but different: https://www.informed.so/

The problem creating such a service is that most media houses believe that their content is the best thing since sliced bread and thus they often don't want to partner. Even though most of their content isn't that unique. Of course, some publications do have unique content, e.g. nyt, bloomberg.

I could see artifact being an interesting company to tackle this though (https://artifact.news/). They are already sending traffic to news sites and only serving what the user wants. If they now let me bypass paywalls for $20 that would be nice.