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[PaulHoule]

One of the best HN redesigns I've seen in that it's not just "add whitespace" but is a totally different layout.

My take on social media is that you have to have an image in a post if you want people to engage with it.

[sourcepluck → PaulHoule]

You're writing that on a medium which is social which gets tons of engagement which doesn't have any images.

I don't get it. Surely every single thread that got even modest engagement on HN since the beginning of the place disproves your take?

[PaulHoule → sourcepluck]

HN is unusual because it is that way. There's nothing wrong with that.

But let's put it this way. If I find a popular article on a ScienceX site I often find it links to a journal article which may or may not be open access, let's assume that it is.

Posting to HN I will usually post the open access article.

Posting to Mastodon or Bluesky I will usually post the ScienceX link because those platforms can find an image in those articles but can't find an image in a paper in Nature. (Note on those platforms I get replies like "this is over my head" when I post a real paper whereas nobody in HN wants to admit that vulnerability)

If somebody makes an HN clone which merges in images, those images are going to have a big impact on people's engagement with that clone.