Semil Shah writes:

With the high-minded and crisp design in sites like Quora, Branch, Medium, and Svbtle, there are a class of lesser known, grittier sites humming along driving millions of pageviews in the dark corners of the web.

9gag, a site specializing in the sharing of eccentric pictures and content, is growing like a weed, and PandaWhale has built an discussion and sharing community around technology and other topics, where users can also post original content and then take their work and conversations to whichever platform they seek.

(I read the PandaWhale email digest every morning.)

Thank you for the Hat Tip, @Semil!

I read the PandaWhale email digest every morning, too.