The more original content being published, the better. Plenty of good stories are not yet being told. Adding a new site seems to draw new readers and writers to the non-fiction ecosystem, rather than result in competition for them.
(The above is why we liberally license and syndicate our content. Sure, it'd be nice if readers got Flayrah's content through our own site, but we reach a far larger audience with syndication, and ~15% of our visitors arrive through it.)
As for PHP, I don't think you'll see much argument there. Both Flayrah and [a][s] use frameworks running on it.
The more original content being published, the better. Plenty of good stories are not yet being told. Adding a new site seems to draw new readers and writers to the non-fiction ecosystem, rather than result in competition for them.
(The above is why we liberally license and syndicate our content. Sure, it'd be nice if readers got Flayrah's content through our own site, but we reach a far larger audience with syndication, and ~15% of our visitors arrive through it.)
As for PHP, I don't think you'll see much argument there. Both Flayrah and [a][s] use frameworks running on it.