Medium is a poor choice for blogging

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Post by rlv-dan » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 1:30 PM UTC

Medium is a poor choice for blogging
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Post by stevespang » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

Spot on. Medium is garbage.

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Post by ordu » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:10 PM UTC

Funnily enough, I was able to read this story only by switching FF into reader view. For some reason I was unable to scroll page in normal view. Probably scrolling needs some javascript which was blocked by uMatrix, or something like.

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Post by ArtemZ » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

I have neither Google nor Facebook account. So Medium is a no go for me.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

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Post by bko » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

Pretty convincing. I didn't notice how bad medium was since I'm always logged in and have an ad-blocker. I also don't think they do much in terms of discovery. My blog [0] has about 370 followers and my posts only get about 10 - 20 views unless I put them on social media. Then they'll get between 100 and 10k+.

Does anyone have experience with an alternative platform? Preferably free and hosted.

[0] https://medium.com/ml-everything

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Post by wongmjane » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

Disabling JavaScript and cookies for medium.com domain, and a bunch of uBlock rules [1] should do the job

[1] Here's mine:

medium.com##.metabar

medium.com##.js-stickyFooter

medium.com##.js-postAttributionFooterContainer

medium.com##.js-postActionsFooter .buttonSet

medium.com##.button--follow

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Post by Gys » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

What would be a good alternative ?

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Post by RobGav » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

Best alternative are static generators like Jekyll or static CMS like Publii https://getpublii.com

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Post by harveylord » Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

bko wrote: post #6

Pretty convincing. I didn't notice how bad medium was since I'm always logged in and have an ad-blocker. I also don't think they do much in terms of discovery. My blog [0] has about 370 followers and my posts only get about 10 - 20 views unless I put them on social media. Then they'll get between 100 and 10k+. Does anyone have experience with an alternative platform? Preferably free and hosted. [0] https://medium.com…

There is a freemium service called Write.as [0]. It might not be the exactly same kind of thing as Medium, but, personally, I appreciate its ultra-simplicity. Since I have never went as far as starting my own blog, I occasionally host text content there that I want to share.

[0] www.write.as