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"Give people consistent but random stimulus and you will be habit-forming. Getting people hooked on your product might seem like a good idea, but the tobacco industry feels the same way."

DO NOT Listen to this. Make your site as addictive as possible. It can only help you win at life. More users = more impact = more money = better life. So long as it's not porn, your website won't be as bad as tobacco.

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I think this is a little tone deaf to the target audience. Not all developers want to aspire to extracting the maximum amount of resources from users. Some, especially beginners who want to code, just want to build something and build it well.

I'd argue that porn is better for you than most of these addictive websites, and certainly better than tobacco.

You cannot convince me that the addictiveness of social media is a good thing.

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