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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?

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Post by glaucon »

glaucon wrote: post #30
PikachuEXE wrote: post #21

I 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…

Actually this https://dev.to/about describes the "leadership" although it doesn't say straight out who owns it.

Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?

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Post by toper-centage »

mel_llaguno wrote: post #29
fy20 wrote: post #28

I 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?

That's a workaround for a terrible user experience. The fact that you need to suggest that at all is telling. Wait until they start blocking private session users like some news papers...

Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?

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Post by toper-centage »

glaucon wrote: post #30
PikachuEXE wrote: post #21

I 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…

But dev.to already is monetized? They are not a charity. They are open source a d make money with job postings, sponsorships and sponsored posts.

Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?

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Post by hactually »

villgax wrote: post #27

If 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?

I'm keen. Drop me an email - Golang and Vue are my tech choices.

Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?

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Post by zhte415 »

If a technical article/blog, and thus assuming one has some technical understanding and cares sufficiently to spend 10 minutes per day maintaining it, why not setup a VPS and brand it under yourself (or company) which I'd imagine is well worth the $5 per month that Linode, DO, or others charge.

Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?

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Post by oliverx0 »

toper-centage wrote: post #33
mel_llaguno wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried accessing a Medium link in Incognito mode?

That's a workaround for a terrible user experience. The fact that you need to suggest that at all is telling. Wait until they start blocking private session users like some news papers...

They used to do this at some point. I remember medium telling me I could not proceed in incognito. I wonder why they rolled that back.

Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?

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Post by gbrindisi »

Medium allows you to set a canonical tag, so authors can direct SEO juice towards their own websites. Github/gist doesn't have that.

In practice 99% of what you read on Medium is syndicated, they are in the business of trading an audience for content (that in turn will grow their audience).

Re: Ask HN: Why are people publishing FAQs/articles on Medium instead of Gist?

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Post by XCSme »

gbrindisi wrote: post #39

Medium allows you to set a canonical tag, so authors can direct SEO juice towards their own websites. Github/gist doesn't have that. In practice 99% of what you read on Medium is syndicated, they are in the business of trading an audience for content (that in turn will grow their audience).

But then why does the Medium article still have better SEO than the original one? You are still directing more traffic to Medium instead of your site.
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