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Comment by josefresco | Hacker News Reader

Came here to say this - your comment showed up after I submitted mine. Can anyone else explain the extreme change of topic?

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Apparently the article has a linkbait title, and the Medium analysis/advertisement is the primary thesis.

This is disappointing to say the least.

You know, HN was supposed to be this "no click-bait allowed" place, but it's almost exactly the opposite, everything here is clickbait and almost nothing on the front page is ever worth actually clicking and reading.

If you choose what you read carefully, it's still a great source. I find it a lot better during the quieter times on the weekends, and I use the number of comments on a post as a negative indicator when considering clicking on an article.

This is not HN's fault. The mods have been good at fixing titles.

This is a Quartz and published-media-is-dying-and-desperate-for-pageviews problem.

I'm subscribed on the HN page on Facebook so I see the front page articles on my feed. I always check the HN comments first before I decide to read the article. Saves a lot of time.

The story did not bury the lead:

As a publisher, the experience made me realize the potential in a service like the one from Ev Williams’s Medium.

Seems straightforward enough to me.

1. Crap, my blog got hacked.

2. I'm a journalist not a cybersecurity expert. I need to outsource the task of keeping my blog secure.

3. Medium seems a promising candidate.

4. Actually, Medium looks pretty good. Let's look more closely at it.

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