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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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ajsnigrutin ◴[02 Sep 25 14:57 UTC] No.45103952[source]▶
Webdevs, why, why o why, do you have to ask me to subscribe to the newsletter before you even let me read the first 5% of the article? Do you really thing people read the first sentence and then go "yes, i definitely want to receive spam from this website! here's my email address!" or what?
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1. evilduck ◴[02 Sep 25 15:09 UTC] No.45104094[source]▶
Webdevs aren't the ones making that decision unless they happen to own the whole company, product managers and marketing demand those popups. Also, unfortunately, they do tend to work better than other options like passively showing signup forms below content or on a dedicated page linked off of something.