There’s a certain comfort we get in belonging to a community.

Sure, there’s the thrill and anticipation as you click through a gallery such as the one below to see which story was the most popular on our website last month. But it’s the sense of knowing our peers feel the same that makes us feel all rosy inside. It’s the same reason die-hard conservatives flock to Fox News or the left-leaners head on over to MSNBC or CNN. We like knowing others think like we do.

OK, now that we’ve gotten past all of that malarkey …

In our recap of May’s top stories, you’ll find Windstream’s bankruptcy, now a few months past its onset, still getting a whole lot of attention. SD-WAN continues to dominate the tech speak; nearly three months after posting our latest “20 top” list, you wanted to see who ranked where. And CenturyLink caught your eye by acknowledging selling its consumer business isn’t “off the table.”

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Click through our gallery below to find out which of these stories – or something else – was No. 1!

Missed the previous month’s top stories? Click here to see our most-read posts in April.

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