Is this Medium login wall helping writers somehow? Does this exist for any other reason than to juice up some product manager's login KPI?

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@stevestreza It increasingly feels weird to me how much value tech companies assign to the creation of a user account. So many accounts created, mostly just to reduce the friction of upselling users to premium subscriptions later.

I think if I were to launch a new iOS product today, I’d focus on making the signed-out experience as good as possible, and the premium experience worth the minimal drag of Apple’s subscription tooling.

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.