above-the-fold of domain=dev.to, page 1:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=euirqe has been posting nothing but stepsize (paid service) and referral links in blog posts for them for two years.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio is a crap, insecure tutorial on how to set a variable in python with a donate to me link as large as the tutorial, with multiple resubmissions
The vast majority of the other posts are basically non-interesting or barely-technical stolen content from stackoverflow, spam blogs, amazon affiliate links hidden in a blog post, undisclosed + no "show hn" self promotion.
Wow...that "tutorial"...
It's not even formatted correctly. It will throw a syntax error before it even runs because of the wrong indentation.
The donation button is kind of the icing on the cake for this.
Medium.com is only about half spam by the same metric.
Despite both having open sign-ups, they have significantly different average quality.
But I guess for the purposes of spam discussion, that is irrelevant.
That makes it ring more hollow than Medium does, because much of Medium is rants and musings that could be right, wrong or "not even wrong" and it wouldn't matter.
I don't go to either dev.to or Medium if I can help it. Do they even offer free reads at Medium anymore?