HackerNoon Doesn’t Respect Writers
3 min readMay 2, 2023
Today HackerNoon deleted not only my profile, and every article I’ve published on the site; they also deleted every article that referenced me. The reason for the erasure is a dispute about canonicalization for syndicated content. It’s as dumb and disrespectful to writers as it sounds.
I syndicated multiple stories to HackerNoon with a correct (according to Google) canonical URL to the original content…