Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
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#2"Writing comments to Medium posts feels awkward because each comment is treated as a blog post."
This is also awkward from the reader point of view. Trying to follow a comment chain on medium is frustrating as it only shows the first level, diving in switches pages, and often, a need to press a second "load all comments" button. Then the back button to wind your way back up.
Is there some sound reasoning for why it was set up this way? Some benefit I'm not seeing?
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#3Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
#4"Writing comments to Medium posts feels awkward because each comment is treated as a blog post." This is also awkward from the reader point of view. Trying to follow a comment chain on medium is frustrating as it only shows the first level, diving in switches pages, and often, a need to press a second "load all comments" button. Then the back button to wind your way back up. Is there some sound reasoning for why it w…
Maybe to have the UI less cluttered. Just assuming here.
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#5Why lose flexibility and switch to medium in the first place?
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#6I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill.
If you don't want to manage WordPress, try a static site generator like Metalsmith: https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith
Deploy on Digital Ocean or Linode for $5/month. Free hosting options include Github Pages and Netlify.
Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
#7I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill. If you don't want to manage WordPress, try a static site generator like Metalsmith: https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith Deploy on Digital Ocean or Linode for $5/month. Free hosting options include Github Pages and…
Or even $2,5 Vultr if you are on a budget.
Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
#8I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill. If you don't want to manage WordPress, try a static site generator like Metalsmith: https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith Deploy on Digital Ocean or Linode for $5/month. Free hosting options include Github Pages and…
Another free option: gitlab pages with built in ci configurations for a bunch of different static generators. All you have to do is commit for updates.
Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
#9Why lose flexibility and switch to medium in the first place?
Probably the usual - it was new cool and convenient.
Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
#10I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill. If you don't want to manage WordPress, try a static site generator like Metalsmith: https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith Deploy on Digital Ocean or Linode for $5/month. Free hosting options include Github Pages and…
But it's not the same sort of skill as, say, doing low-level graphics programming, or database query optimization. Just because you're a programmer doesn't mean you're a web developer.
It's like saying that it doesn't make sense for a carpenter to live in a house they didn't build, or for a heart surgeon not to pull out his own wisdom teeth.