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The number one reason is good content, the other seem superfluous.

It’s nice if it’s not published in a walled garden, but it’s not a stopper.

Then I personally don’t care about needing JS to view the site (it’s 2024…) nor the RSS feed.

And regarding the no-captcha, never found one to read the site besides Cloudfare versification from time to time, and it doesn’t bother me.

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> Then I personally don’t care about needing JS to view the site (it’s 2024…)

In 2024, shouldn't hacker news visitors get that receiving a passive document to display locally is a thing, and having to run unaudited code from random strangers on your machine all the time is quite another? Then reopen the conversation about browser security?

Or, instead, get that simplicity is our ally, but unneeded complexity is the root of much evil?

Visit e.g. any stackexchange site with script disabled and be enlightened.

Information foraging. If the effort to obtain the promised payoff is more than perceived value, then I won’t bother.

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