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Is is just me or was the authors transition from "How I got hacked by the Chinese" to "Here's some analysis of articles on Medium" kind of jolting? I would hav
by fblp 10y ago
Is is just me or was the authors transition from "How I got hacked by the Chinese" to "Here's some analysis of articles on Medium" kind of jolting?
I would have liked to see some analysis on the prevalence of these attacks on blogs instead.
- josefresco 10y agoCame here to say this - your comment showed up after I submitted mine. Can anyone else explain the extreme change of topic?
- rwallace 10y agoSeems straightforward enough to me. 1. Crap, my blog got hacked. 2. I'm a journalist not a cybersecurity expert. I need to outsource the task of keeping my blog secure. 3. Medium seems a promising candidate. 4. Actually, Medium looks pretty good. Let's look more closely at it.
- minimaxir 10y agoApparently the article has a linkbait title, and the Medium analysis/advertisement is the primary thesis. This is disappointing to say the least.
- sdegutis 10y agoYou know, HN was supposed to be this "no click-bait allowed" place, but it's almost exactly the opposite, everything here is clickbait and almost nothing on the front page is ever worth actually clicking and reading.
- jc4p 10y agoIf you choose what you read carefully, it's still a great source. I find it a lot better during the quieter times on the weekends, and I use the number of comments on a post as a negative indicator when considering clicking on an article.
- minimaxir 10y agoThis is not HN's fault. The mods have been good at fixing titles. This is a Quartz and published-media-is-dying-and-desperate-for-pageviews problem.
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoI'm subscribed on the HN page on Facebook so I see the front page articles on my feed. I always check the HN comments first before I decide to read the article. Saves a lot of time.
- tantalor 10y agoThe story did not bury the lead: As a publisher, the experience made me realize the potential in a service like the one from Ev Williams’s Medium.