I've always associated them with horrible experience. I groan whenever I see Scribd instead of just a link to the PDFs. I have a good PDF viewer, thank you. In fact, I have several.
Scribd is "Hacker News" quality. They're one of the HN venture capital funded companies.
Puts a different spin on it, doesn't it?
Not really. It's still a sucky site that's worse than what we had before.
You must have a much lower expectation of "Hacker News" quality than I do. Has scribd ever had a good user experience? I've come across them once in a while for years and never liked it at all.
This. So many solutions in search of problems.
No? I don't expect every such company to be amazing.