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Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by ohadpr »

andr wrote: post #87

I hope that everyone uses this. If I was Netlify, I'd pay Mathieu to develop this further (e.g. web UI for people not handy with CLI). What broke Medium for me was their paywall, paid subscriptions, and all that crap. Suddenly, instead of Medium facilitating an author's work reaching readers, it became an impediment in its way.

The CLI version is pretty cool, if you'd like a more point-and-click experience try: https://www.stackbit.com/medium/ (Disclaimer: we created this a few weeks ago)

It uses the same Medium export process and lets you pick what Site Generator to use (e.g. Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll) and more importantly it lets you pick between a variety of CMS like Contentful, NetlifyCMS, Forestry and DatoCMS.

Oh there are also several Blogging themes to pick with and your new imported blog can be up and running in 1-2 minutes.

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by ukyrgf »

duiker101 wrote: post #2

I don't have a blog (medium or anything) so unfortunately I don't have a use for this, but I LOVED the gif. It wasn't an attempt to show "how easy it is to do with one command" but rather a real flow of how it all goes, I appreciate it, well done!

The thing is, it's a command line tool that requires the user to go out and manually do just about everything. Export the files, set up the repo, create a Netlify account, configure everything there, hook it into GitHub, etc. In the end, all the tool really does is convert files to Markdown and then use Gatsby as an SSG. If you already had the knowledge to do everything else, why not just do that yourself and not be stuck with somebody else's opinionated choices?

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by spookybones »

eugenhotaj wrote: post #7

I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…

Couldn’t the blogs be decentralized, and the links and previews be offered by any platform? This is what Hacker News does, Reddit, RSS, etc. What else is Medium offering? I don’t use it, so it’s a genuine question. Do Medium writers get paid on a Spotify-like model?

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by wishinghand »

eugenhotaj wrote: post #7

I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…

This is why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20062690

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by jmsmistral »

ajkjk wrote: post #89
eugenhotaj wrote: post #7

I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…

I often feel like the tech industry has a huge blind spot around "not doing things that make people hate you", and that conversations around tech tend not to factor "hate" (or 'resentment' if you prefer) into making things appealing. For example I mostly hate Facebook for the choices they have made for years, and if I was ever going to stop hating them it would be after many years of sacrificial demonstration that th…

I wholeheartedly agree with this comment... and find the way it's articulated refreshing. God forbid we say we hate something without someone being outraged. +1 to 98% hating Microsoft... but also kudos for VSCode and TypeScript.

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by dheera »

eugenhotaj wrote: post #7

I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…

I only recently started using Medium. I do like the audience aspect of it, but I also want my own personal website to mirror all of my content on Medium. As they don't have an API I'm actually working on something to periodically scrape my own Medium account and copy all the posts to my personal website so they can be seen at either place.

Although technically not that different from this project my objective would be not to switch over, but rather still use Medium's editor, but just have content mirrored.

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by nacs »

tyingq wrote: post #84
rat9988 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare isn't trying to compete with github, You have misread the news.

Not making that up, or paraphrasing from 3rd parties, from the Cloudflare CTO: "If we do, what features would you like?" - Cloudflare CTO https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1134092076382064640

The key word being "if".

It sounds like he's just curious what people want Cloudflare to do for the GitHub audience instead of making a full Github replacement.

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by inetknght »

bllguo wrote: post #91
ajkjk wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often feel like the tech industry has a huge blind spot around "not doing things that make people hate you", and that conversations around tech tend not to factor "hate" (or 'resentment' if you prefer) into making things appealing. For example I mostly hate Facebook for the choices they have made for years, and if I was ever going to stop hating them it would be after many years of sacrificial demonstration that th…

If you had framed this as being about personal ethics and morals, it would have been much easier to agree with. Maybe even admirable. Describing it as some kind of irrational hate just sounds silly.

If you think irrational hate isn't rooted in misunderstood morals and ethics then you need to sit down and listen to your peers a little more when they discuss the reasons they hate companies associated with Silicon Valley.

Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

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Post by CM30 »

phantom_oracle wrote: post #48

The cycle of these SV companies is interesting. They start off with a bang and become "darlings" in the initial stages, then they reach mass-market appeal, attempt to monetize (some of them do so in the most unethical ways) and start to become loathed by the very people who touted them in the beginning. Let's compile a list: - Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn - Quora - Medium (You can add to it to see how far we go)

Every image/video/content hosting site seems to go through this process too. Look at the likes of Photobucket or Imageshack or Imgur or YouTube; they all started out with simple, clean interfaces and everyone liked them, then they became mass market, tried to monetise and were so obnoxious with it that everyone turned on them.

Then again, YouTube is basically an example of a company/site/service which does virtually everything wrong, but succeeds on pure network effect/inertia. The monetisation aspect is probably the least of their worries.

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