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by prepend
1904 days ago
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What is this article? It doesn’t present what goodreads could have been, or what it is. Editorially, it was had to read. The author references a super popular previous post but doesn’t link to it. Why is that important? I tried going to the home page to get a list of articles but it asked me to sign up for a newsletter. Seems light on content and just SEO blargh trying to collect subscribers. The boat stuck site was neat though. |
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645813
It's not really directly pertinent to whatever this post is about. They did one post. It did well. Now they are struggling to relate to this blog that had runaway success on the first post when they may not have some clear idea of what they are doing with this blog.
BTDT, got the t-shirt.
Runaway success on a first post to a new blog that's only kind of a half-baked idea can make it hard to sort out what you are doing and it can feel like other people have big expectations and yadda.
I would chalk up that first paragraph to "free therapy masquerading as PR by someone who probably has a poor grasp of PR."
The state of the internet today means it's inevitable you see weird mash-ups of odd things at times like that.