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You're writing that on a medium which is social which gets tons of engagement which doesn't have any images. I don't get it. Surely every single thread that go
by sourcepluck 2y ago
You're writing that on a medium which is social which gets tons of engagement which doesn't have any images.
I don't get it. Surely every single thread that got even modest engagement on HN since the beginning of the place disproves your take?
- PaulHoule 2y agoHN is unusual because it is that way. There's nothing wrong with that. But let's put it this way. If I find a popular article on a ScienceX site I often find it links to a journal article which may or may not be open access, let's assume that it is. Posting to HN I will usually post the open access article. Posting to Mastodon or Bluesky I will usually post the ScienceX link because those platforms can find an image in those articles but can't find an image in a paper in Nature. (Note on those platforms I get replies like "this is over my head" when I post a real paper whereas nobody in HN wants to admit that vulnerability) If somebody makes an HN clone which merges in images, those images are going to have a big impact on people's engagement with that clone.