Medium is a blog-focused social network, basically a "Twitter with no limit posts", with its real advantage being that it has become trendy, probably due to its initial closed phase, to post there.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
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Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
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That is what I thought as well, I also have no idea why Medium is so popular still aside from the initial hype of being "a good experience" for writing.
I think Medium was the alternative to posting to Facebook, LinkedIn and Wordpress.com. In that sense, it doesn't need a killer, as it's the one dying under its attempts to kill.
Is it dying? I genuinely don't know.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
#23I'm not sure what Medium is anymore, to be honest. I want to say it's a blogging platform, but it feels more like a doom-scroll inducing social media platform to me these days. There are a few alternatives if you just want to blog: https://write.as https://bearblog.dev And more dev-focused, but I think it's quite noisy: https://dev.to Maybe substack is more of a "killer".
As far as I can tell, Medium is basically LiveJournal with better fonts and layouts.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
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It might be telling that no competition has really emerged as it's not clear to me what it was that Medium offered to make it obvious/popular at all? Edit: Substack is an idea but seems to be the Patreon of writing.
That is what I thought as well, I also have no idea why Medium is so popular still aside from the initial hype of being "a good experience" for writing.
I haven't used it, but I think the appeal was that by posting to a place with a pre-existing audience, you could catch traffic from an initial audience that you otherwise would not have.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
#25Netlify? Hugo? AWS Amplify? Wordpress?
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> Does there need to be? Result from https://hn.algolia.com/?q=medium seems like a _yes_ to me. I also notice that lots of data science people for example is still oblivious that many despises Medium, so they continue to use Medium to build a community. That's a loss considering how hostile Medium has been to readers.
I wonder what percentage of Medium users are HN user. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Medium but I think HN users are not target users for Medium. I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.
I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.
I've never heard any non-tech person show any awareness that Medium even exists as a brand.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
#27To me, I think it's some combination of substack and dev.to.
A couple of months ago I've started to notice how infrequently I ever read an article hosted on Medium anymore. This is a stark contrast to several years ago when it seemed like every article being shared on social was on Medium. Nowadays, that seems to be dev.to for code-related posts, and substack for others; and just personal blogs for the rest.
(Posts about code moving off of Medium is a welcome change. Medium's paywall and style/format itself don't lend itself well to articles containing code, etc.)
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Medium was the alternative to posting to Facebook, LinkedIn and Wordpress.com. In that sense, it doesn't need a killer, as it's the one dying under its attempts to kill.
Is it dying? I genuinely don't know.
The frequent re-positioning might suggest a lack of footing.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
#29There is, it's called Substack.
Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?
#30Substack and free-to-paid newsletter services in general, dev.to for tech.