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As soon as I see this in a blog, I quit tab. Why do authors do this to themselves?




Sorry about that that is my blogging platform Hashnode. It was lesser of four evils:

- Medium which paywalls the article and forces you to sign up just to read.

- Substack has same problem, it's great for funneling people to your paid newsletter but there is a sign up banner as soon the page loads.

- Build your own and miss out on the social aspect and there's no proof if the numbers are real.


hashnode is good. i support you, keep trucking.


They do it when their real goal is to funnel you into a newsletter to later sell you stuff. The only purpose of the article is to show you that prompt.




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