Ask HN: Should I blog on Medium for my open-source project, or self-host?

Post by ergot » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 4:46 PM UTC

pknight wrote: post #25

Use WordPress.com's hosted WordPress with a custom domain if maintenance is a concern. If you ever decide to go selfhosted, migration is seemless. All the other hosted platforms frankly could stop working a year or two from now. Medium doesn't have a viable business model and probably won't get one, it's only a matter of time when it closes shop, like many other platforms before it.

It will eventually end up on Archive.org. Self hosting is not an antidote to this I think, and sometimes the free services like Wordpress/Blogger last longer.

In the end, there is no escape from bit rot, yet things like IPFS[1] are trying to solve this.

[1]: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

Post by Zren » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 6:47 PM UTC

misframer wrote: post #64

Zren wrote: post #16

If you don't mind all "" in your code blocks getting turned into unicode open/close quotes, and the lack of a markdown editor, then sure. Tab also doesn't indent. You can't use `code tags` for variables. Pre tags (code blocks) create a new paragraph instead of a line break ( ). So basically not a programming blog. You can create a gist and paste the link, but that's a terrible workaround.

I think you can copy and paste code and it keeps the double quotes intact.

Huh, that's new. You can now type ` and ``` first to start code/pre tags. https://i.imgur.com/brsG4BO.png

Shit, they added that back in November. I probably should have checked first before writing my review.

https://blog.medium.com/introducing-three-new-features-to-te...

You still have to start the code block (```) first before pasting I think.

Re: Ask HN: Should I blog on Medium for my open-source project, or self-host?

Re: Ask HN: Should I blog on Medium for my open-source project, or self-host?