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Gist offers public visibility and commenting without the requisite barrier to entry.
Thoughts?
I like gists and I have used them for years for my (non-medium) blog. I usually break down whatever I am explaining piece by piece and then include a link to a gist with the complete code for the reader.
I don't have a Medium account and I don't like running into paywalls but monetization could potentially have very little to do with the motivation to use a publishing platform like Medium over what is essentially an orphaned single public commit.
I like gists and I have used them for years for my (non-medium) blog. I usually break down whatever I am explaining piece by piece and then include a link to a gist with the complete code for the reader.
Interesting. So how do you decide what to publish on Medium? Is it simply a distinction between `blog` content vs. technical docs, or something else?
I’m not sure if ease-of-use is a reason for others to not use gists more frequently, but I’ve definitely become a bit of a gists “advocate”, after appreciating just how useful/flexible it is as a “developer cloud storage” solution.
I was asking a similar question for numerous use cases (e.g. code snippets, book reviews, notes). Gists are so broadly useful, but relatively few developers actually use them. Personally, I found that incorporating gists into my daily workflow just wasn’t very convenient, and so I ended up creating a VS Code extension that allowed me to create, edit, and comment on gists within the editor: https://aka.ms/gistpad . I’…
P.S. My biggest peeve with Gist is the missing dark mode :(. Otherwise, I find that the ability to use Markdown and embedded images in my gist's actually covers most of my documenting/blogging use case. Obsidian will hopefully address the dark mode issue.
I use gist for informal things I don’t have time to turn into a great blog article yet. Or half constructed notes that can live in a pastebin.
I guess I’m curious why medium is the only alternate you list to gist as opposed to creating your own blog outside of medium?
So I think it's a split between people who want to try and generate some revenue, and those that don't want to sign up for that program and are too used to Medium to switch away.