What we measured
We loaded platformer.news in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 10
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 6
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 6
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 9
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of platformer.news, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Platformer
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
- Superintelligence is a dragon
- Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
- How much of my boss's job can AI do?
- Notes on the third era of slop
- This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
- A big week for AI denialism
- Congress proposes an AI kill switch
- The case for making your own apps
- China has a new top model
- The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI
- The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
- OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure
- Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
- Why social media bans are gaining steam
Where it sits in Tech & AI
- #9 Latent Space85
- #10 The Markup85
- #11 Platformer84
- #12 Citizen Lab83.5
- #13 LWN.net83.5