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Ending our Medium integration

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Re: Ending our Medium integration

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Post by kiba »

I think some things are more suited as not-for-profit entities.

Blogging is hard to monetize without coming off as evil or desperate, so why bother?

But then again, you still need to fund servers and such.

Re: Ending our Medium integration

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Post by shaqbert »

First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then...

Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own software on your own server. Ghost, Gatsby, etc. to the rescue.

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Post by kuhhk »

Personally, I was excited by Medium all those years ago. Now I think twice before clicking a medium.com link. I really hate the obnoxious UI and usually close the tab before reading the article. Anyone else feel this way?

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Post by FPGAhacker »

kuhhk wrote: post #4

Personally, I was excited by Medium all those years ago. Now I think twice before clicking a medium.com link. I really hate the obnoxious UI and usually close the tab before reading the article. Anyone else feel this way?

I feel that way about most bloggish sites, until I hit the readability button.

If they block that then I give up.

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Post by [deleted] »

kuhhk wrote: post #4

Personally, I was excited by Medium all those years ago. Now I think twice before clicking a medium.com link. I really hate the obnoxious UI and usually close the tab before reading the article. Anyone else feel this way?

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Post by StavrosK »

shaqbert wrote: post #3

First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then... Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own software on your own server. Ghost, Gatsby, etc. to the rescue.

I run my blog with Lektor on Netlify (no affiliation with either, except I recently became a Lektor co-maintainer) and deploying literally gives me happy feelings. It's amazing to be able to just deploy your blog wherever you want, and Netlify have done a great job at being a deployment target.

Re: Ending our Medium integration

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Post by pornel »

kuhhk wrote: post #4

Personally, I was excited by Medium all those years ago. Now I think twice before clicking a medium.com link. I really hate the obnoxious UI and usually close the tab before reading the article. Anyone else feel this way?

Same here. It's ironic that Medium was supposed to be a nice, clean reading experience — an alternative to all the crappy popup-ridden content mills.

Re: Ending our Medium integration

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Post by r3bl »

shaqbert wrote: post #3

First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then... Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own software on your own server. Ghost, Gatsby, etc. to the rescue.

It's not directly related to the story, but Write.as federates the content to Mastodon and others in the fediverse.

Re: Ending our Medium integration

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Post by feistypharit »

StavrosK wrote: post #7
shaqbert wrote: post #3

First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then... Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own software on your own server. Ghost, Gatsby, etc. to the rescue.

I run my blog with Lektor on Netlify (no affiliation with either, except I recently became a Lektor co-maintainer) and deploying literally gives me happy feelings. It's amazing to be able to just deploy your blog wherever you want, and Netlify have done a great job at being a deployment target.

I used to live lektor, but thought it died. Hope to see it start moving again.
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