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		kerkeslager on July 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How can we get people to read submissions ... The implementation of collecting the length of the article is prohibitively complex and error-prone.

hindsightbias on July 13, 2020 [–]

If there’s no way to accurately scrape by article today, sounds like a need for a startup.

kerkeslager on July 13, 2020 | [–]

I think for most possible clients it would be a solution in search of a problem. Even for Hacker News, I'm not sure how it would actually work out, so if I were HN I wouldn't be willing to invest much in it.

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