Thanks for the invite to participate, we already have fantastic answers by @michaelgilley @sandeep & @whotheheck , so I only can add how I personally get value out of Hashnode.
Preface
It all started end of last year. A tweet about devmag.io caught my attention. I joined this small friendly community, found some easy to answer questions and put my 2 cents as well as shared some URL's. The other devs liked what I had to say and share and so started to invite me to answer more and more questions. Then devmag.io rebranded itself to hashnode.com.
Today
Until today, I receive a lot of feedback, found great people who inspire me to learn new stuff, gained a quadrillion followers and got invited to all sort of questions to share my views, thoughts, opinions or knowledge. What a big motivation for me, btw thanks to all of you!
I have the feeling, the more I put here, the more I receive back in reward.
I share links to blog posts, products, tutorials, discussions, inspirational websites and all I find useful somehow. The result is, at least that is what I experience now is that many more share fantastic links. Instead of checking my RSS feeds regularly, I visit hashnode a couple of times a day now.
To motivate the other guys here I like, appreciate and comment on links, stories, and questions even though I found the content somewhere else before. I do this because I think it's just fair. I got recognized here so I could help others getting recognized too.
Future
I hope hashnode.com is here to stay for awhile, and I hope we all care about keeping the language nice and sound as it is today. I try to write some Stories and hopefully I'll have a question to become an awesome Hashnoder finally - inside joke with @sandeep ;-)