Ditching Medium • Hacker News Board

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by PaulHoule » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:47 AM UTC

milancurcic wrote: post #13

Either I or the Author are confused about how Medium works. > A blog, to me, was a place for someone to put their thoughts up onto the internet and have anyone who wanted to come and read - for free. But you can still do this, no? You can write articles on Medium that can be read for free. > Medium relies on user-submitted content and then charges those same users for access to their content. My experience is that Me…

Medium is a place that pretends to be slightly better than average but is really slightly worse than average.

Who needs to click on clickbait headlines like "Should I buy a Chrysler Pacifica or a Wagon Queen Family Truckster?" or "Does it hurt more to be hit with a .457 Automag or a Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDut-saDvV8

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by PaulHoule » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:50 AM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #18

It was never a go to platform for programmers blogs. It’s the worst platform for programming blogs. The way comments work makes it impossible to have kind of coherent conversation. I don’t have an issue with medium for things that don’t involve discussion but for anything that should have discussion. Ahhhhh

Medium is a Ghetto. Who wants to be seen along with thinly sliced salami articles that almost have something to say, desperate content marketers who are writing articles like "Does your API Need a Content Marketing Strategy?" and who are amazed that they got 35 people to view their steaming Turd Emoji?

Not me.

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by azhenley » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:52 AM UTC

So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by PaulHoule » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:52 AM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #12

village-idiot wrote: post #11

I have never understood tech blogs on Medium. Surely if you’re writing about a technical subject, especially programming, you have the skills to setup a quick Jekyll blog? It’s what I did, and I have no idea why I’d hand control of my user experience over to Medium, no idea whatsoever.

1) Built-in recirc 2) SEO optimized 3) Better tech than you'd get on your own platform -- e.g. the ability to act as an oEmbed consumer. The trade off is that you don't have as strong a relationship with your subscribers. But considering that 100k page views probably only gets you 100 subscribers, most bloggers have basically zero chance at getting any real number of subscribers to begin with so for them using a plat…

SEO optimized?

From what I see there are a few accounts that spam every article posted on Tedium to HN.

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by briandear » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:54 AM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #23

So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?

Wordpress.com

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by aantix » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:56 AM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #23

So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?

Update your .plan

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:57 AM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #23

So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?

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Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by rococode » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:58 AM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #23

So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?

Several YC-affiliated people (Sam Altman, Jessica Livingston, etc.) use Posthaven.

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by DoreenMichele » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:59 AM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #23

So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?

Blogspot.

Re: Ditching Medium

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Post by mkolodny » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 2:59 AM UTC

milancurcic wrote: post #13

Either I or the Author are confused about how Medium works. > A blog, to me, was a place for someone to put their thoughts up onto the internet and have anyone who wanted to come and read - for free. But you can still do this, no? You can write articles on Medium that can be read for free. > Medium relies on user-submitted content and then charges those same users for access to their content. My experience is that Me…

I think the author is confused about how Medium works.

> My experience is that Medium charges only for access to "premium" articles, submitted through their partner program, no?

After reading through Medium's FAQ, I believe that's right - an article is free to read unless it's published through Medium's partner program [0]. So if you want your posts to be free to read, just don't join the partner program.

[0] https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009297694-Frequ...