Hello everyone What a couple weeks, It’s been so much work to replace our infrastructure. As we are removing Medium from Hackernoon.com, we have on March 12th to make the language more explicit that: (1.) contributors will always be accredited for their work, and (2.) contributors can remove their stories from Hacker Noon at any time. For the past few weeks, our have been circulating around, and generating a lot of attention. It’s great! We are happy that our readers & writers actually read our ToS, and have constructive feedback about them. As a contributor-driven network, we take your feedback very seriously, and will iterate to make them better. If you have more questions about our please feel free to comment on this post, or email us at . updated our terms of service Terms of Service Terms of Service stories@hackernoon.com Who do these Terms of Service affect? If you are reading these words, you! For Writers: everyone who has contributed a story to us via , , , * , when we started communicating our Terms of Service directly to you :) stories@hackernoon.com stories@amipublications.com amipublications.com/hacker-noon contribute.hackernoon.com after October 12, 2018 Sidenote: editors prioritize story submission order by contribute.hackernoon.com first. Who received a recent email from Hacker Noon about our Terms of Service ? If you are a “past writer”. Past writers are those who have contributed to HackerNoon.com before having a chance to read our . Terms of Service Explain the Terms of Service like I’m five: Let me try my best. The Terms of Service ensure that: You own the rights to your content Hacker Noon can edit and distribute your content You can remove your content from HackerNoon.com at any time You will always be attributed for your content We can move off Medium’s infrastructure with you! I want my stories to move to Medium.com instead of keeping them on Hackernoon.com. How do I do that? Sure — You can simply remove your stories from HackerNoon.com . here How do I opt-out of the Terms of Service ? For all writers (past & current): You can simply remove all of your stories from HackerNoon.com. . Here’s how For past writers: you can reply to our email to your inbox about the Change of Terms notice. Or email to request to be removed. davidsmooke@hackernoon.com Why are you moving off Medium.com? TL;DR We were a profitable business for years and they killed our primary revenue stream (sponsorships) while continuing to run their own advertisements on our domain. explains it all. Here’s the . This video full transcript What will happen to my past stories once you move off Medium.com? We are still negotiating with Medium. We are trying our best to ensure that no links break in the move. If you don’t care about links breaking and would rather be on Medium.com, simply remove your stories from HackerNoon.com . here Is Hacker Noon 2.0 free or paid? Free. We will never put any story behind a paywall.

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