HackerNoon is a bit of a scam. They started by requesting hundreds of people post on their publication through a Medium feature that has since been removed. They would take sponsorships, and have made some significant cash built on the back of people publishing their content on HackerNoon for mediocre exposure. HackerNoon broke a lot of stuff laid out in the TOS. There is a big battle going on with the whole Medium +…
IMO, Hacker Noon's scam went completely over the top when they tried to raise investment money from their readers. A huge headline in their prospectus was getting 8M page views per month. But there was no discussion of this obvious risk, which is that they don't own the copy right to most of their work. So the new site is going to be getting much less than 8M views.
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