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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?

#5

Post by LinuxBender »

Do you mean an alternate place to put your blogs/stories? There are plenty. There is Github and Gitlab or if you want something not owned by Microsoft or Gitlab, an alternate could be NeoCities [1]. Neocities is open source so you can even run it yourself if you don't want to use their domains. Venturing into the more manual setup are cheap VPS providers and frameworks for managing blogs. If you are specifically looking for a community, consider setting up a Discord server based on your topics of interest and invite people to it from your blog.

[1] - https://neocities.org/

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?

#6

Post by deadvoid »

Finnucane wrote: post #3

Does there need to be? Or do we just need more alternatives?

> 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.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?

#9

Post by deadvoid »

LinuxBender wrote: post #5

Do you mean an alternate place to put your blogs/stories? There are plenty. There is Github and Gitlab or if you want something not owned by Microsoft or Gitlab, an alternate could be NeoCities [1]. Neocities is open source so you can even run it yourself if you don't want to use their domains. Venturing into the more manual setup are cheap VPS providers and frameworks for managing blogs. If you are specifically look…

No, I mean killer. An obvious, popular choice for replacing whatever Medium offered.

Re: Ask HN: Why isn't there a Medium killer yet?

#10

Post by sdevonoes »

deadvoid wrote: post #6
Finnucane wrote: post #3

Does there need to be? Or do we just need more alternatives?

> 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.

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