Svbtle: The Anti-Growth Hack

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The author of this post (presumably the submitter) doesn't seem to understand what growth means.

Saying 'Svbtle' is anti-growth because of a clean interface and a curated set of authors/posts is like saying Twitter is an anti-growth hack because they don't let people use more than 140 characters.

Traditionally, 'growth' is taken to mean consumers of the service: in this case, that isn't Svbtle's writers but Svbtle's readers -- which, regardless of whether or not you like the service, is a number that's certainly growing.

The part that's anti-growth-hack is "There’s no tweet button. No following. No comments. No re-engagement notifications. No viral loop. etc." It was also pointed out yesterday that there's no cross-promotion within the network. Svbtle is forcing themselves to earn all their traffic the hard way. I guess that's fine if it works.

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