<meta> "Let me know in comments" I seem to be seeing a lot more submissions to Ask HN that are basically blog posts. I'm not trying to police anyone, and if t

<meta> "Let me know in comments" I seem to be seeing a lot more submissions to Ask HN that are basically blog posts. I'm not trying to police anyone, and if the mods are happy with this then ok. But I'm curious about whether there's actually a trend here, and whether hn users lack alternative places to post their thoughts. Something to so with twitter going down the drain?