Web3 Backups for All Stories and Other HackerNoon Updates!

Hello again, Hackers!

HackerNoon keeps on being the perfect playground for writers and innovation. If you’ve missed our recent updates, let us refresh you on what’s happening at noon.

Web3 Backups: All HackerNoon Stories Now Republish on Arweave

HackerNoon has published over 1 billion words, and now all those words and stories are backed up on Arweave - this ensures that HackerNoon and its contributing writers will have Web3 backups for all their stories🙂

How do these Web3 Backups work?

At the bottom of all published HackerNoon stories, in the section that shows you all the sites that feature a story, you'll notice a "Permanent on Arweave" button, meaning that the moment a HackerNoon story is published, it also gets backed up on Arweave - so even if HackerNoon dies, your stories will live on. A mention of Arweave linkage will also show up on each individual story stats page.

When you click that button, you'll be directed to a lite version of our site that focuses solely on the story content, ignoring the bells and whistles (like emoji reactions, related stories, etc.). The lite version of our site is about 40% smaller than our primary site size, so it also has viable use cases in slow internet regions too.

The lite version of our site can also be accessed via this tiny green earth lightning bolt above the upper right of the featured image on any story with the hover text of “Read this story w/o Javascript”:

In the unlikely event that HackerNoon is not accessible in your region, you could simply visit __this wallet address__and start reading HackerNoon by clicking on any of the hashes!

Story Distribution Front and Center at HackerNoon

Accessibility plays a crucial role in a publishing platform's distribution capabilities. That’s exactly what HackerNoon strives to enhance accessibility by converting text stories into various formats such as audio story files, multilingual translations, terminal view, printer view, offering options to download JSON and PDF versions, and now, a cryptographic text backup via digital signature on Arweave.

Other HackerNoon Developments

If you subscribe to our product updates, you've probably heard about our subscription feature, Twitter embeds, and improved AI image generation models. But that's not all!

HackerNoon seeks to give you the best experience possible, even if that limits our communication, such as with newsletters' settings. This feature on your email settings lets you pick and choose with newsletters and __tech briefs __you want to subscribe and unsubscribe from - making sure your inbox remains curated to your preferences.

Another feature that will not only extend writers' reach to their audiences but make HackerNoon even more accessible is the Tech Brief Podcasts. Our podcasts allow everyone to tune in and listen to their favorite HackerNoon writers on the go and keep up-to-date with the latest tech news and insights. We've got everything from business and programming to gaming and tech stories and more - search for "HackerNoon Tech Brief" on Spotify, Deezer, or PlayerFM to get started.

How does any of this relate to you?

We hope all our recent updates further assure you of our commitment to you, our writer, of doing the most to preserve and distribute your stories and make them accessible to everyone, everywhere.

So the next time you start a new story, you can rest easy knowing that your work is well taken care of. Speaking of stories, here are a couple of ideas for your next creation 😉

1. Have you learned something that could be valuable to your professional peers? Tell us about it here.
2. Any recent realization you’ve had about the ways of the world? Share it with us!
3. Is there anything in tech that’s particularly exciting to you? Write about it!
4. What are your thoughts on this week’s poll? Spill the tea here!

Sometimes, the only way to a great story is to start typing nonsense.