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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

by 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 smooke 8y ago

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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