Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

Post by tomc1985 » Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 7:45 PM UTC

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I can't speak for others, but one reason why I'd use something like Medium is precisely to ensure that I don't manage anything by myself except for the content production part. I have a long list of attempts at setting up my own site, but because it's mine I wanted to get it just right. And so down the rabbit hole I go: making sure my server is super-secure (because it's important hey I'll learn in the process!), fin…

I've had largely the same experiences. Recently I decided to challenge myself to instead keep it simple, rather than treat the whole thing as a "learn some new thing along the way" type exercise. The end result is I actually have a blog I'm actually writing on that is absurdly easy to maintain, rather than the usual (for me anyway!) 75 percent complete side project in some new technology I'll never get around to fini…

Post by calcifer » Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 7:48 PM UTC

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You can use HTTPS to secure many things, not only login details. Not least of all, the privacy of your users/readers. There's also integrity of your site, and many more future proof reasons. These days, there's no reason _not_ to use HTTPS, really. https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/encr...

Except for the difficulty of managing and keeping up to date with TLS (I'd have to upgrade my RPi's OS for example, to do it well), and the fact that it actually reduces performance for small simple sites with local readership, even with HTTP/2 for example. http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-carbon-cost-of-CDN.html Edit: I note that I got downvoted, though no reply with reasons. I accept that it is currently widespread…

Post by gboudrias » Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 7:56 PM UTC

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> Which blog system should we use? Hosting your own WordPress site? It's simple and easy. Why did anyone ever want to be on Medium in the first place? Most likely for the name association and the visibility that comes with it. I think we have a responsibility to promote self-reliance as part of technological culture. If we want people to move away from centralization (which I do), we have to teach by example (which I…

"Hosting your own WordPress site? It's simple and easy." I would think that, for at least 90% of those publishing on Medium, that's neither simple nor easy. Even ignoring that, hosting your own Wordpress site means taking responsibility for keeping it up to date, security-wise. That hurdle alone probably makes most bloggers use some third-party blogging provider.

Post by gboudrias » Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 8:03 PM UTC

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> Which blog system should we use? Hosting your own WordPress site? It's simple and easy. Why did anyone ever want to be on Medium in the first place? Most likely for the name association and the visibility that comes with it. I think we have a responsibility to promote self-reliance as part of technological culture. If we want people to move away from centralization (which I do), we have to teach by example (which I…

Wordpress is for sure powerful, has a huge ecosystem and is for teams a safe bet because of very good and battle-tested workflows. But sorry, I don't want to setup a stack I did 20 years ago. However, I haven't looked into Wordpress for years. For simple personal blogs I like DB-free SSG blog systems. But I am still wondering which one is the best. Just Hexo (Node) and Hugo (Go) come to my mind.

Post by tomeehan » Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 8:08 PM UTC

tomerbd wrote: post #44

may I ask which theme you use? it looks very nice..