Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

Post by type0 » Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 11:03 PM UTC

forgotmypw wrote: post #4

Shywim wrote: post #2

I don't even understand why someone who has a hosting would want to write on medium when they can host their own blog, especially when in the case of liberapay and mastodon they say they are fighting for freedom but choose to wirte their posts in a closed, centralized service which also has user-hostile behavior.

I rarely click medium.com links, or any of their associated domains, hackernoon.com, etc. The website sucks . It's crippled without JS, and squirmy and laggy when JS is enabled. Either way, it's very heavy on the network pipe. Medium is in business of driving traffic, which means the content is likely to be mediocre. It's content that is looking for an audience, as my comment's sibling states. Which means that it is…

Post by scrollaway » Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 11:11 PM UTC

nvus wrote: post #189

scrollaway wrote: post #37

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Post by amedvednikov » Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 11:27 PM UTC

mercer wrote: post #126

froindt wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DO recently upped their specs. Now you get 1 GB ram for $5/month, which are the specs of their previous $10/month tier. I'm going through this weekend and switching my $10 instance to a $5.

I recently switched to Hetzner Cloud, which offers significantly more at lower prices. For about $2.50 you get about the equivalent of a $10 droplet. Only downside I can think of is that they don't have servers in the US (AFAIK) and I think they don't have a DNS panel.

Post by SuperNinKenDo » Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 11:37 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #72

rcthompson wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the post where they quote the message Medium sent them: https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay/99744414079487371 And here's the policy page it links to: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000646167

Ah, that policy page was added a week ago (the update date is visible on the mobile site). Even if that policy was violated, it’s a jerk move to ban for infractions prior to that date.

Post by post_break » Mon, Mar 26, 2018, 12:00 AM UTC

philfrasty wrote: post #46

bmarquez wrote: post #15

I never understood why people who can use self-hosted wordpress and domain names would decide to give up control and put content on Medium. The stories featured on the front page seem a bit of an ideological bubble (I doubt any conservative bloggers would get any traction there.) And the whole "log in to your email to log on" is IMO horrible design. I put Gmail in a separate browser to mitigate cookie tracking, havin…

That is a bit like saying "I never understood why people who can self-host video put it on YouTube". Most times your content will never reach a significant audience (if this is your goal), platforms like Medium/YouTube/Flickr/500px make discovery easier.