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

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Post by elviejo79 »

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…

you and I hate the same companies, and as you explain making things that people hate are profitable in the short and medium term.

I still cannot forgive Micro$oft for their past behavior, even if they seem cool now.

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

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Post by notatoad »

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…

>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.

I know this is medium's pitch to bloggers, but is it actually true? It is for youtube, but i'm pretty sure i've seen some blog posts about people having migrated away from medium with minimal change in readership.

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

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Post by pacifika »

blocked_again wrote: post #78

Honest question. Do people still read blog posts these days? I feel like twitter has made me so lazy that I can hardly consume any long content. I hardly even read the articles posted in HN but do go through the comments since they are easily digestible. Is it just me?

You’re looking for context to the content. That’s normal in a distrustful media landscape.

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

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Post by timvisee »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #69
timvisee wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For terminal based things I've been using `asciinema`. There are various options to play/render such recordings, such as to an interactive SVG. SVGs are lot smaller than GIFs in file size, and are even scalable. See one of my projects for example: https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend#ffsend-wip

Even better is ttyrec + tty-player for full self-hosting without a third party intervening. You get interactive playback controls and scroll buffer access while paused. https://github.com/chris-morgan/tty-player

That isn't something I can embed in a GitHub README. But it looks cool anyway.

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

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Post by tobr »

ukyrgf wrote: post #102
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…

I’ve built a few sites with Gatsby and Netlify, so I might qualify as having “the knowledge to do everything else”. Haven’t tried the tool, but I can’t imagine that I would get the end result of the GIF in less than a day if I had to figure it all out on my own. There’s a lot of decisions and research and little hiccups to get through in a thing like this. And even if you use the tool, it looks like you have every opportunity to do it your own way if you want to.

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

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Post by ryanisnan »

TrueDuality wrote: post #82
ryanisnan wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe your blog would get any improved SEO benefit from having canonical links to Medium - IIRC, Medium would get the juice. Furthermore, I don't know how Google handles cross-domain canonical reporting, but if I were writing a search engine, I would treat it as highly suspect.

You've got it backwards. There will be a header in the Medium post saying "the original source for this content is on this other blog, I'm just a repost". Google does pay attention to that and ranks the canonical source higher.

I believe they were discussing how Medium does not allow canonical links. I am aware of how canonical links work.

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

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Post by xrayspec »

djflutt3rshy wrote: post #90
drngdds wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's hard to actually make money as a free service on the internet without being evil and/or really annoying

Yes, it'd be easier to compile a list of large free Internet services that aren't evil or annoying. 1. Wikipedia 2. Hacker News 3. Stack Exchange 4. Github and Gitlab

Disagree on Stack Exchange, I'm afraid. It's a vampire that has pushed the costs of its service down on unpaid contributors (esp members of open-source communities) and privatized the benefits. Similar to Medium, that's time & energy that those programmers could've spent enhancing the knowledge archives of their own open-source communities.

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

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Post by Vordimous »

So I have been putting together a way for people to more easily make their own blogging platform. It would kind of mimic a social media platform, but since everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack it could easily be converted to a full website or in your case you could simply delete the repository or any number of your posts because they are just files in your repository. Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/ Everything is owned by the end user. This is only providing a recipe for people to use. I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.

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

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Post by calvertdw »

blocked_again wrote: post #78

Honest question. Do people still read blog posts these days? I feel like twitter has made me so lazy that I can hardly consume any long content. I hardly even read the articles posted in HN but do go through the comments since they are easily digestible. Is it just me?

Some ideas can't be fully represented in a short paragraph. You can get a surprising amount of knowledge out of a few pages of text. I developed the patience to read slightly longer texts recently and it has been refreshing and rewarding.
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