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fjsolwmv on May 6, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Subscription Hell

HN is has two parts:

1. Free chitchat

2. Links to content.

HN isn't much without the external content.

wafflebear on May 6, 2018 [–]

To be fair it's the comments that count. HN could randomly generate topics with a markov generator and still retain 80% of the value for me :)

kaybe on May 6, 2018 | [–]

We could also take turns in inventing titles and then vote on them.

Is there any metric for people clicking the external link compared to unique commenters?

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