At 3MB for a short text article, I'm wondering the same thing, honestly. I think it's mostly ease-of-use and discovery.
Why Are We All on Medium?
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#32I like medium but I am not sure when they will start showing ads on our blogs. I don't like ads on my personal blog.
But I also don't like to write in markdown and yaml and compile into static site and post it on GitHub so I recently moved backto blogger but I still blog on medium too. https://justruky.blogspot.com
Re: Why Are We All on Medium?
#33HN is very far from being "FOSS-freaks".
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#34I dunno. I still mostly follow actual blogs (Armin Ronacher's is one of the best), even as most people consign RSS and Atom to the bitbucket. I only read medium when there are articles posted on HN from it: The signal:noise ratio on Medium is pretty high.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Who wants to spend their time re-inventing the wheel? Ask any author of thousands of 'We reimplemented something in Go, Rust and Node.js'.
What if the wheel turns faster in Go?
I'll respond by pointing to the example set by Betamax & VHS.
Speed isn't everything. Stability and Security are arguably more important.
I think there are developer concerns as well, when considering new or alternative languages and platforms.
Wordpress is presently king, as it comes to both blogging platforms and CMS. There are many reasons for this, and I doubt it will change anytime soon because it has momentum now as well. WP is built using PHP of course, and I've heard lots of developers say PHP is terrible.