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Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by jacquesm »

cupcakestand wrote: post #69

To the point criticism of Medium, very detailed and the OP is picking the right issues of Medium. While Medium looks so beautiful and clean at first glance it really disappoints when you use it on a daily base both as a creator and as a user. Everytime I use Medium, I am surprised that Medium is successful. Its appearance feels definitely premium and significantly of higher value than any other blog system but the us…

> Which blog system should we use?

Hugo works extremely well for me. Very fast and reliable.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by user5994461 »

cupcakestand wrote: post #69

To the point criticism of Medium, very detailed and the OP is picking the right issues of Medium. While Medium looks so beautiful and clean at first glance it really disappoints when you use it on a daily base both as a creator and as a user. Everytime I use Medium, I am surprised that Medium is successful. Its appearance feels definitely premium and significantly of higher value than any other blog system but the us…

Use wordpress.com

Works wonder. 2 decades of great service.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by movedx »

bdcravens wrote: post #139
movedx wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub's UI is far superior, for one. You're also placing your code in an ecosystem of other OSS projects, which I believe is a good thing. Also, GitHub private repositories for an individual are far cheaper than running a H/A GitLab on DO, AWS, Linode, or any provider worth mentioning. By definition of running a H/A solution on DO's cheapest offering, you're paying $15/month for three VMs, and we haven't started tal…

Many of the same arguments could made for using Medium instead of running your own blog software.

I never said I was against Medium ;)

I'm against self hosting when it makes no sense to do so, and only because I've seen people get burnt by the process and I don't want to the same to happen to you. I'm probably capable, but many aren't.

Legal or regulatory reasons are the only reasons I can think of that might force your hand in to self-hosting.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by user5994461 »

gboudrias wrote: post #75
cupcakestand wrote: post #69

To the point criticism of Medium, very detailed and the OP is picking the right issues of Medium. While Medium looks so beautiful and clean at first glance it really disappoints when you use it on a daily base both as a creator and as a user. Everytime I use Medium, I am surprised that Medium is successful. Its appearance feels definitely premium and significantly of higher value than any other blog system but the us…

> 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…

How easy do you think it is? Have you done it?

I found that self hosting wordpress is incredibly complex and expensive.

Wordpress.com does a great job though, nothing to manage.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by kerkeslager »

tyingq wrote: post #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 w…

It's quality over quantity.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by KGIII »

cupcakestand wrote: post #97
sigstoat wrote: post #95

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> Maybe, maybe not. uh it isn't some sort of weird toss-up? i'm referring to specific people who i know. > Even embedded coders face HTML/CSS at some point when their embedded devices incorporates a webserver for some admin interface which sends HTML/CSS to the world (e.g. a router). Or they have create an API doc for their newly created embedded system, on the web. There are many examples. there's a whole world of e…

Ok, it's hard to imagine that such people exist but I believe what you say. You are right, they should rather use Medium.

I haven't touched HTML since somewhere around v. 3.x... I haven't ever bothered to really learn CSS. I am retired, but I once write software to model traffic.

Just another datapoint for you.

I can install Wordpress and a theme. I have no idea how to really customize said theme. I could learn, I am not feeling compelled to do so.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by audiometry »

tinalumfoil wrote: post #47
untog wrote: post #23

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I suspect it's because they didn't/don't want people to comment in the usual way - you can highlight text on an article and leave short comments in the relevant place if you want to do that. I think the comments section at the end was intended more as a place for lengthy reaction posts. It's why comments have "recommend" rather than "like" as a button. I might "like" someone saying "great post!" but I'm not going to…

I hate reaction posts in comments section. I see this mostly on reddit with posts simply saying "I agree" or "well said" and if your lucky quoting some interesting part of the article. I get the feeling these are up voted by people that just want the important quotes to save time and those that agree so much they want to drown out other conversation. Intended or not these comments kill all conversation. They add abso…

GOOD point.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by user5994461 »

s3nnyy wrote: post #59
dullgiulio wrote: post #38

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How did they cracke discoverability? Some posts are famous and rank higher, I haven't noticed a general rank boost. Also, I have stumbled upon a lot of blogs on own domains that turned out to be Medium hosted. I assume these don't get any advantage on Google?

I am not sure if I am overvaluing Medium but I feel that I owe the existence of my recruiting agency to them: - In November 2014 I published "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech" ( https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... ) - I immediately started getting CVs from people who googled "work in Switzerland in tech". Then, I asked local startups and firms if they would pay me if I…

Not to be dismissive but I think you forgot very important issues, biased to your personal situation.

1) Switzerland doesn't speak English, it doesn't even have one language.

You don't feel it because you are German. One is going to have a hard time in Zurich if he doesn't speak German.

2) Considering a 20 years old insurance and a shared flat is surreal. All cities are affordable when you live in a dump with flatmates, including NYC, SF and London.

The problem is when you live in decent conditions, or worse, have a family. Your expenses will skyrocket and consume all the LOCAL salary.

Don't get me wrong. I love Switzerland, it has great a environment and it is safe. The costs of living is no better than anywhere else though.

Re: Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

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Post by shurcooL »

JoshMnem wrote: post #6

I 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…

I tried and gave up right away. You can't even insert a tab character. How can you write any code snippets?

https://medium.com/@shurcooL/trying-out-medium-b1cee6165fef

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