It’s a tricky space to operate in. When companies like that want to “drive growth” they have a tendency to introduce questionable methods that can be downright

It’s a tricky space to operate in. When companies like that want to “drive growth” they have a tendency to introduce questionable methods that can be downright user-hostile. E.g. the irritating JavaScript they use that messes with the user’s ability to copy text from a Medium article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28494328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28494328 Stuff like that will irritate readers and give the publisher a bad name. It might be possible to run a publishing platform without resorting to nasty hacks like that, but the growth hacking shortcuts will be very tempting.