The project, minus the blogspam: https://github.com/electron/fiddle
No biggie, I guess, but it adds up.
> Electron Fiddle is entirely open source and developed by a group of volunteers.
And even if it was paid product, what does bloat have to do with marketing?
If you want people to adopt your open source code you have to do some marketing of some sorts. Otherwise it’s just another dead project on Github.
A lot of things submitted to HN are also for the clicks, doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.
I would appreciate this point if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of actual developers use this platform. It doesn't make sense for people knowledgeable about tech to not spend 10 minutes searching for a better blogging tool.
I've begun to subconsciously avoid any links to a medium post regardless of the content. I don't know if there are other people who do this, but it definitely is indicative of how bad the website has become.
Developers use Medium for the same reasons other people do.
Can you give me a legitimate reason why someone creating developer software finds medium easier than say something like github pages?
> Developers use Medium for the same reasons other people do.
Such as blogspam.
This particular article can further be disregarded because the GitHub project README is practically the same content without all the stuff that Medium does to be annoying.
> Electron Fiddle let's you create and play with small Electron experiments.