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I agree, unfortunately I think this is what hacker news looks like when dan is asleep.

They were hyped up as a more 'mature' version of Twitter, focused on real conversations instead of engagement-bait and virality.

Looks like they went the clickbait route.

I didn't even get to the end of the linked post when I got hit with the paywall. They should have asked me in advance. I'd have told them that if you can't even read the post explaining the end of the site without hitting a hard paywall, your site won't have a chance in 2024.

I wondered why I'd never heard of them, but it's easy to see why, given their lack of understanding of the importance of sharing to gaining brand recognition.

They Enshittified too early?

It is full of Medium style enshittification for sure but it is par for the course for VC. I am sure they serve the Google Crawler a nice copy without authorization though.