HackerNoon is a bit of a scam. They started by requesting hundreds of people post on their publication through a Medium feature that has since been removed.
They would take sponsorships, and have made some significant cash built on the back of people publishing their content on HackerNoon for mediocre exposure.
HackerNoon broke a lot of stuff laid out in the TOS. There is a big battle going on with the whole Medium + Publication sphere which I have some inside knowledge of.
Overall Medium is a whatever platform, and HackerNoon just is just making money off other peoples content.
They would take sponsorships, and have made some significant cash built on the back of people publishing their content on HackerNoon for mediocre exposure.
HackerNoon broke a lot of stuff laid out in the TOS. There is a big battle going on with the whole Medium + Publication sphere which I have some inside knowledge of.
Overall Medium is a whatever platform, and HackerNoon just is just making money off other peoples content.