It's been weirdly uneven. Sections 1, 3, and 5 did well on HN; 2, 4, and 6 sank with essentially no trace. The distribution of views is presently:

1. Introduction: 33,088 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648)

2. Dynamics: 3,659 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693678)

3. Culture: 5,914 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703528)

4. Information Ecology: 777 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718502)

5. Annoyances: 7,020 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730981)

6. Psychological Hazards: 199 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747936)

Feedback from early readers was that the work was too large to digest in a single reading, so I split it up into a series of posts. I'm not entirely sure this was the right call; the sections I thought were the most interesting seem to have gotten much less attention than the introductory preliminaries.

That’s unsurprising given the author’s long history in the tech community. A ton of people see that domain and upvote.

A statement broadly true of most things this author writes.

that's just, like, how HN works. people post, people like, people upvote, people discuss