Thanks for engaging. I'm perfectly happy switching to something new. I've only been on this place for six weeks or so. But I'm a bit conflicted about options.

Thanks for engaging. I'm perfectly happy switching to something new. I've only been on this place for six weeks or so. But I'm a bit conflicted about options. Looking at the front page of HN on any given day, a significant portion of the top comments are not about the material, but about the site itself: the fonts are too big, the layout is hard-to-read, it's a paywall, Medium has gone to crap, the site shouldn't be trusted, the load times are too long, the page is too heavy, and so on. (You have to know what I'm talking about here) I'm a coder, so I can (and have) put content in all kinds of places. I could give you a detailed list of a dozen or so that I've tried, from plain html/js on my own server to Git Pages and this current experiment. The problem is that I have _yet_ to use any of these where I didn't get some sort of meta comment like yours. I believe, and I hope I'm wrong, that the _control_ issue you mention is never going to go away. It's just going to be an issue of what trade-offs people are willing to make for ease-of-use. Yeah, I could drop web pages and multi-media content on AWS and set up my own membership and streaming services. Then I could get into multi-format streaming, SAML, CDN configuration, and a hundred other technical issues that I'd love to play with, but have nothing at all with trying to create some kind of useful content out of my career experiences so far. So thanks, and I agree, but I'm still kind of at a loss at what to do. If more people complain I'll send the admins an email. I could leave, but to where? Meh. EDIT: If I wasn't clear enough, I don't like the popup either.