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Medium will be a better place without Hackernoon's clickbaity & shallow articles. That being said, Medium has broken its platform with the aggressive roll out

by danols 8y ago

Medium will be a better place without Hackernoon's clickbaity & shallow articles. That being said, Medium has broken its platform with the aggressive roll out of premium. I guess it depends on which categories you are interested in but for knowledgeable and in-depth tech articles the best articles are not written by authors looking to earn a couple of dollars as a side gig. They are written by people that wants to create a profile for themselves and/or as content marketing for a company. A star marker is rarely an indication of a very in depth article and is never written by a true expert in the subject. These authors just don't write with the incentive to make money from the content itself. Medium.com used to be a create recommendation engine for quality & related content. Now the recommendations are garbage full of clickbaity & shallow articles with a star marker. And their search is terrible and lacking in basic features like time filtering/sorting. When you search now you get many 2-3 year old articles in fast changing tech subjects which are completely uninteresting. A great search and ability to build some feeds/channels is actually a feature I would pay for. Maybe other niches creates different experiences but for tech it is not a platform worth exploring beyond the article you came for via a twitter link.

trashcan_ 8y ago
I really wish I noticed this before I dished out for premium. Was sadly disappointed when my inbox was just flooded with terrible, unsophisticated articles I don’t care much for.
smooke 8y ago
Hey Danols, David from Hacker Noon here. Publishing is a hard business. While I don't agree with everything you said, I do like you believe that the best stuff to read is from the expert themselves. Sometimes the articles we publish are too shallow (we will work to improve quality), and other times we're able to achieve a better place to read (by publishing top tech professionals https://hackernoon.com/archive/ https://hackernoon.com/archive/).
- rchaud 8y ago
  Hi David, The link you posted, when sorted by 'Latest', becomes a pretty damning indictment of what HackerNoon today appears to be, which is a low-grade content mill masked by a few really great, impactful articles. Most of the content however wouldn't be out of place at Huffington Post or Forbes.com. * "3 Programming Languages to learn in 2019" * "12 JS Concepts that will Level up Your skills" * "6 things to know when self-studying Machine Learning" This is the worst kind of SEO keyword stuffing you expect to see from bloggers on LinkedIn, not a reputable publication. Just my 2 cents. I hope you are able to clean up the shallow content, but it doesn't seem like a very deep pool to begin with.
  - smooke 8y ago
    As a site gets larger, quality control is tough, and the irony is, having SEO content makes it easier for the best content on your site to have better distribution. With more control of collections, tag pages and topic pages in hacker noon 2.0, I think we find strong SEO in other areas. I will say if you pick the 3 best of today, the experience is a bit better: "Why are we (still) sending so much web traffic unencrypted over the Internet?" https://hackernoon.com/why-are-we-still-sending-so-much-web-traffic-unencrypted-over-the-internet-383317b758ec https://hackernoon.com/why-are-we-still-sending-so-much-web-... "Going Global (or Globally Local)? How Netflix Produces Amazing Global Content"https://hackernoon.com/going-global-or-globally-local-how-netflix-produces-amazing-global-content-5ad98d0a5ff1 https://hackernoon.com/going-global-or-globally-local-how-ne... "The Future of Robotics Development with Eva Li of Vincross" https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-robotics-development-with-eva-li-of-vincross-dd8d85256d4e https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-robotics-development-wi... And as a site who's rooting for every day tech story (as opposed to professional writing), there will be some bar to raise. Thank you for your 2 cents. Creating a better version of LinkedIn Publisher for the technology community would be a better site than we are today.
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by danols 8y ago

trashcan_ 8y ago

I really wish I noticed this before I dished out for premium. Was sadly disappointed when my inbox was just flooded with terrible, unsophisticated articles I don’t care much for.

smooke 8y ago

Hey Danols, David from Hacker Noon here. Publishing is a hard business. While I don't agree with everything you said, I do like you believe that the best stuff to read is from the expert themselves. Sometimes the articles we publish are too shallow (we will work to improve quality), and other times we're able to achieve a better place to read (by publishing top tech professionals https://hackernoon.com/archive/ https://hackernoon.com/archive/).

rchaud 8y ago
Hi David, The link you posted, when sorted by 'Latest', becomes a pretty damning indictment of what HackerNoon today appears to be, which is a low-grade content mill masked by a few really great, impactful articles. Most of the content however wouldn't be out of place at Huffington Post or Forbes.com. * "3 Programming Languages to learn in 2019" * "12 JS Concepts that will Level up Your skills" * "6 things to know when self-studying Machine Learning" This is the worst kind of SEO keyword stuffing you expect to see from bloggers on LinkedIn, not a reputable publication. Just my 2 cents. I hope you are able to clean up the shallow content, but it doesn't seem like a very deep pool to begin with.
- smooke 8y ago
  As a site gets larger, quality control is tough, and the irony is, having SEO content makes it easier for the best content on your site to have better distribution. With more control of collections, tag pages and topic pages in hacker noon 2.0, I think we find strong SEO in other areas. I will say if you pick the 3 best of today, the experience is a bit better: "Why are we (still) sending so much web traffic unencrypted over the Internet?" https://hackernoon.com/why-are-we-still-sending-so-much-web-traffic-unencrypted-over-the-internet-383317b758ec https://hackernoon.com/why-are-we-still-sending-so-much-web-... "Going Global (or Globally Local)? How Netflix Produces Amazing Global Content"https://hackernoon.com/going-global-or-globally-local-how-netflix-produces-amazing-global-content-5ad98d0a5ff1 https://hackernoon.com/going-global-or-globally-local-how-ne... "The Future of Robotics Development with Eva Li of Vincross" https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-robotics-development-with-eva-li-of-vincross-dd8d85256d4e https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-robotics-development-wi... And as a site who's rooting for every day tech story (as opposed to professional writing), there will be some bar to raise. Thank you for your 2 cents. Creating a better version of LinkedIn Publisher for the technology community would be a better site than we are today.
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