Ask HN: Links are pouring in from “substack”, can someone please explain?

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Is this just natural success of a new application?

Or are submissions being gamed?

What’s the sub stack story why has it just taken off?

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"Why are links pouring in from wordpress.com?"

Because it's a large hoster of – in one case mailing lists, in the other case blogs – that many different people use.

It's nonsensical to consider substack.com a single site.

Still doesn't explain the sudden increase

Scroll down this list of search results (on the search term substack.com) and you'll see a history of submissions by many different users over the last 10 months:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I don't think this looks suspicious in any way.

Maybe the people who have become disillusioned with medium.com have found an alternative blogging platform?

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