Unrelated to the article, I'm seeing a lot of material from habr.com making it to the front page. Most of these articles are direct translation from posts from the main Russian-language site, which I've found to be an excellent-quality blog aggregator with really interesting long-form articles. Many articles are posted directly to Habr by large Russian tech firms (Yandex, Vkontakte) or firms with a lot of Russian-speaking developers (Badoo). There are also translations of many popular blog posts that make it to the top of Hacker News, and high quality discussion in general. I read Russian with difficulty, but Google-translating or finding the original linked article in the case of translations works very well. I don't know of a similar tech-focused English-language platform (Medium focuses on all sorts of topics, and is getting scummy, and Slashdot/Hacker News/Reddit are not platforms for long-form content). I wish there were an English language equivalent. Maybe habr.com will accomplish it, but with it's mostly-in-translation articles, I don't know.

I am a little annoyed that habr.com now directs to the English site for me by inferring my geo/browser language, but the Russian language content is accessible at https://habr.com/ru/