Hacker News Reader

but here you can't blast readers with a newsletter signup modal

Gah, I hate the internet on this timeline.

Make it a thread on X

Who says that HN is not a great source of outrageous humor?

WHO has been saying a lot of controversial things lately.

HN is like a blog, except that you don't have final cut.

So it's an immutable and non-fungible blog.

modulo the trust you have in the admins and hosts, yes.

I guess it can be. To me it's more for calling attention to a current event (api shutting down, breaking changes at a service, privacy concern, etc). Kind of like a PSA. Using it as a blog post feels inappropriate to me.

But checking the guidelines and FAQ, there doesn't seem to be anything to actually imply that it can't be used that way.

Not really, I treat it more like a forum.

It's greyed out and hard to read.

If you use Firefox, Reader View is pretty nice.

I hadn't thought of that (though I do use FF Reader to avoid ads), though here I was thinking of a writer selecting a blogging platform.