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Moving pointers mean most people (including me) will never read the actual content, so we might as well discuss why someone would choose to alienate their potential audience in this manner.


That seems a stretch to say most people won’t read the content because of this. Some for sure. But most?


I think it’s designed to shoo away HN middlebrow dismissalists such as yourself.


Sometimes alienating can be intentional.


If he's targeting a niche, I'd love to know the customer profile. Maybe he can find a group of people who want to read books in Figma


Some people also just want to have fun on the internet, remember Myspace, Tumblr etc? These sites were hardly functional, inclusive or accessible but they sure were fun.


Sure, but isn't that called trolling? Shouldn't trolls be blocked by default?


Appealing to different tastes is far from trolling.




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