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by muzani 1251 days ago
I'm probably the target market for this. I did like the idea of Medium, but the problem with most of these platforms - Medium, DEV, Hashnode is they become full of crap.

It's people posting things as a form of self-advertising. Some who actually put "blogger" on a resume. Many post tutorials to come up on a search on their chosen skill (or a search for their name). The tutorials are generally poorly well thought out and shallow. Like a lot of people post overcomplicated architectures, with the reasoning being "some famous guy or company used it".

So posting an article with these networks get you associated with that crap. I would like to see something with a proper quality filter. This isn't easy, I understand, which is why the big blogging platforms don't do it. I'm not looking for TikTok-style catchy/addictive recommendations; I'd like to see something the quality level of Steam.

I'm also iffy on AI-guided writing. I love AI-based writing and I pay for GitHub Copilot, but as a platform, that just encourages people to churn out low quality articles.

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Thanks for the feedback! The TikTok style recommendation system is more of an analogy to explain how the recommendation engine will show you content that you actually want to see. Medium, for example, hasn't done a great job at this. It's true that AI writing can encourage people to churn out low quality articles, would have to think harder on that one.