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Ask HN: Links are pouring in from “substack”, can someone please explain?
Is this just natural success of a new application?
Or are submissions being gamed?
What’s the sub stack story why has it just taken off?
- Tomte 6y ago"Why are links pouring in from wordpress.com?" Because it's a large hoster of – in one case mailing lists, in the other case blogs – that many different people use. It's nonsensical to consider substack.com a single site.
- neoplatonian 6y agoStill doesn't explain the sudden increase
- greenyoda 6y agoScroll down this list of search results (on the search term substack.com) and you'll see a history of submissions by many different users over the last 10 months: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=substack.com&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... I don't think this looks suspicious in any way. Maybe the people who have become disillusioned with medium.com have found an alternative blogging platform?
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