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Even the BBC does that. Annoying to see the same story over and over, sometimes right next to each other, and sometimes 3 or more times. Guess they don't have any editorial oversight, and just chuck stuff into their CMS. Lazy.

They sometimes have story, then most viewed story, then favorite story, or just keep repeating.

Everybody is doing it.

Between that and a zillion popups and auto-refresh and new window openings, I've given up on many sites, including technical ones.

Another metric is the Trump Count. Even scientific/technical sites have high Trump counts. I bail from a site (or a newspaper article) when it sprurious injects the T-word. That makes the Sunday New York Times a two minute read. The Register was hitting Nt of 6 or 8 on the home page, but seems to be tapering off.

I guess actual content is too expensive these days.

I isn't uncommon for recent published articles to be both summarised on the home page and linked as a most frequently viewed top ten as well.

It will get cheaper when AI can just roll it out and they can avoid the expensive overheads of knowledgeable technical reporters.