Yeah, despite the semi-joking nature of my post I have found good things in both Medium and Substack. This may be really bad over analysis combined with misrem

Yeah, despite the semi-joking nature of my post I have found good things in both Medium and Substack. This may be really bad over analysis combined with misremembering, but both sites felt like they reflected the HN users-base (or vice versa). I remember circa 2015-2016 Medium posts and HN comments felt in sync in regards to the tone, content etc. I feel the same thing with many Substack blogs seem feeling like an HN comment section turned into an article.