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Re:Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little by account42 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:58AM (#27971847)
> for every second you spend with a creator's work

Time spend is a really bad metric since it can easily be gamed. For non-entertainment content time spent could oven correlate negatively with value.

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Re:Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little by supert56 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:17AM (#27972743)
Totally agree with this. We'll just end up with more waffling long form content packed with videos and distractions to encourage users to spend more time trying to find what they were originally looking for.
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Re:Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little by BizarroLand on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:27PM (#27987608)
And if you're charged by time spent on a page it makes sense to use a bot to download the pages you want to read and then render them locally.

If I'm paying per second I can download something that would take me 5 minutes to read in 5 seconds, saving me 59/60ths of the cost.

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