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by qbasic_forever 1181 days ago
Lifehacker was interesting when it was mostly the single voice of Gina as their blog: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Trapani She would publish great articles about how she managed her personal information, used technology and tools, etc. As a blog it was great content. As a million and billion dollar business... I have my doubts.

I do think there is still a good future for a Lifehacker that goes back to high quality and interesting content from a small set of passionate voices. Too often on Reddit you get a hive mind where the group forms a consensus and any dissenting or alternate views are suppressed or ignored. It's nice to have something with a strong editorial team that can publish unique content based on the merits of its research, and not mashes of the upvote button.

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Hopefully they can prove the value of high quality content. It worked for Wirecutter.