I post on https://dev.to
Gist is not very good for publishing articles in my eyes
Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#22Protip: Copy the link of any blog post written ontop of the medium platform and send it to yourself as a dm over twitter.
Unlimited access to articles & acts as a nice repo of the things you read.
This works because twitter owns medium and uses a special link shortener afaik. I'm guessing there is also a 3rd party website that will do this for you.
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#23Protip: Copy the link of any blog post written ontop of the medium platform and send it to yourself as a dm over twitter. Unlimited access to articles & acts as a nice repo of the things you read. This works because twitter owns medium and uses a special link shortener afaik. I'm guessing there is also a 3rd party website that will do this for you.
Great tip, but just fyi, Medium is not owned by Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_(website)
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#24Protip: Copy the link of any blog post written ontop of the medium platform and send it to yourself as a dm over twitter. Unlimited access to articles & acts as a nice repo of the things you read. This works because twitter owns medium and uses a special link shortener afaik. I'm guessing there is also a 3rd party website that will do this for you.
Great tip, but just fyi, Medium is not owned by Twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_(website)
+1, same founder tho
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searching your own gists is harder than search for a public one. I think it might be easier to make a gist repo and use comments for gists or the inline editor.
I know the gh cli tool helped me find some stuff a lot easier than pointy-clicky through the UI. Maybe it would work for this use case?
TiL, will check it out
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searching your own gists is harder than search for a public one. I think it might be easier to make a gist repo and use comments for gists or the inline editor.
I know the gh cli tool helped me find some stuff a lot easier than pointy-clicky through the UI. Maybe it would work for this use case?
Great suggestion!
USAGE gh gist [flags]
CORE COMMANDS create: Create a new gist delete: Delete a gist edit: Edit one of your gists list: List your gists view: View a gist
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#27If gists had a UI update to even look like a decent Jekyll like blog it would be used, the UI also could gain a lot by improving on Medium's editor
Anyone interested in getting this built?
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#28I absolutely detest finding Medium articles in search results. Often they contain good knowledge which confuses me even more.
For anyone unaware - it seems a lot of people must be, otherwise I don't understand why anyone would choose to publish there - this is the flow for most users trying to read your articles:
- See a Google search result that goes to Medium
- Click the link and start reading
- Read the first two paragraphs, then see a popup saying you need to login to continue reading for free (the rest of the page isn't rendered, so you can't just block it with adblock)
- Reluctantly decide to login, waiting a few minutes for the email link to click on to do so
- Log in, then have to navigate your history back to the article, as they take you to a different page
- Start reading again, and after the first two paragraphs get a popup saying you need to pay $5/mo to see the rest of the article
- Rage quit your job and go live in the forest
I understand there are ways around the paywall, but that's not what most users are going to do.
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#29I absolutely detest finding Medium articles in search results. Often they contain good knowledge which confuses me even more. For anyone unaware - it seems a lot of people must be, otherwise I don't understand why anyone would choose to publish there - this is the flow for most users trying to read your articles: - See a Google search result that goes to Medium - Click the link and start reading - Read the first two…
Have you tried accessing a Medium link in Incognito mode?
Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?
#30I post on https://dev.to Gist is not very good for publishing articles in my eyes
I was interested in this but my first thought was "what happens the day that dev.to gets monetized ?" and my second one was "who owns dev.to ?".
WRT the first one "Yes, you own the rights to the content you create and post on dev.to and you have the full authority to post, edit, and remove your content as you see fit." which on the surface seems a lot better than many crowd contributer situations.
WRT the second one I still don't know and if there's a wikipedia page for dev.to I can't find it.
On the whole dev.to seems better than medium, for now at least, and more approachable than using gists.