Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead?

Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by WnZ39p0Dgydaz1 on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:04PM (#27112533)

I don't think people consider the entire site spam. It's user-created content after all. But if 99% on a site is spam and your articles are not, you may want to consider posting them somewhere else, ideally your own blog, to avoid suffering from the site's bad reputation.

The same goes for medium.com. There are good articles on Medium, but 95% of it is low-quality or spam, so I generally avoid these links or come in with the expectation that an article is likely spam.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by wdencker on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:21AM (#27115952)

Interesting observation. I wonder if these are issues intrinsic to the sites themselves, or if instead there’s some fundamental law that states once a publishing platform reaches a critical mass of popularity, it ceases to yield high-quality content (on average).

I do wonder how Substack is thinking about this problem. They obviously have a different business model than Medium, but I think they are still susceptible to this issue.

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