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

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Post by thomascgalvin »

mathieudutour wrote: post #6
cosmic_quanta wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried doing this screen-capture-to-gif thing before but it was always frustrating. I'd love to hear about the workflow to make a gif like this.

I've used the default MacOS screen recording (cmd + shift + 5) and then edited/speed up some parts with iMovie. Then I transform the video into a gif using https://github.com/mathieudutour/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/mo... Hope that helps!

I used to do the same, but I've had MacOS's default software crash with long-ish (about an hour) content. I switch to Open Broadcaster Software[1] after that; free and open source, and very well made. The learning curve isn't that steep, either, if you're just doing regular screen/audio capture.

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

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Post by mskvsk »

To people wondering why you would want to move to a standalone solution while Medium provides you with distribution and community - it does not (anymore). Well, not to the extent that justifies ceding the control over the representation of your content.

Take a look at this experience https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/we-just-moved-off-of-me...

Tl;dr: Medium's practice of paywalling articles and preferential treatment of those articles over public ones kills the reach of your content. Also, they lock you in by removing the feature of attaching your own domain name. Also, their weird upvote mechanism. Also, the dysfunctional comment system. I can go on and on.

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

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Post by jppope »

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 honestly don't get comments like yours.

The author of this repo built something to help people move off of medium (where their content is currently stored) to their own blog. This has become progressively more common and people might be putting it off because it takes too long.

E.G. the basecamp blog moved in January (https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/).

Furthermore, it is super easy to be critical of something that someone built but significantly harder to create something. Perhaps instead of taking the negative road you could offer suggestions, or build your own move your blog to medium repo... or literally anything that isn't trashing someone's hard work.

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

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Post by wilg »

outime wrote: post #24

The fact that the first thing you see here is a CLI video already puts off most of the people who write in Medium and could hypothetically consider moving away. Since I got downvotes, let me clarify. People who use the terminal can probably handle an eventual migration without much hassle but it'd be good to consider non-technical people for future releases. Otherwise it's a fine tool.

You're getting downvoted rightly because your comment is completely ridiculous.

This is a little open source script for transferring Medium articles elsewhere. There is no reason to believe that this project is meant to completely address "supporting people who want to move away from Medium". It's fine to make something that does something simple like this. Perhaps you should create this application you seem to think should be made.

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

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Post by tyingq »

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…

Cloudflare recently posted about competing with GitHub. Maybe this is a better place to compete if they are hell bent on going wide vs deep?

Medium, for me, is a weird shit show. There are people there I want to read, but I dislike the "medium". For a variety of valid reasons, ranging from page weight bloat, to killing the custom domain feature, and finally...to paywall experiments. I do recognize their strength in visibility.

Edit: happy to hear critical feedback.

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

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Post by timdorr »

cosmic_quanta wrote: post #4
fareesh wrote: post #3

Great gif. This should be how everyone does readmes.

I've tried doing this screen-capture-to-gif thing before but it was always frustrating. I'd love to hear about the workflow to make a gif like this.

If you're doing just text/terminal recording, Asciinema is probably your best option: https://asciinema.org/

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

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Post by phantom_oracle »

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)

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

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Post by medecau »

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)

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