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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?
While some interesting and insightful articles still exist on the site, the majority feels like someone trying to explain me what they read on Wikipedia this morning.
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I feel that way about most bloggish sites, until I hit the readability button. If they block that then I give up.
Every single time I see a medium link, I prime my cursor to hit Reader Mode as fast as possible, it's a godsend.
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.
$1/mo? $5/mo? $25/mo?
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.
Non-VC companies are a longer and less glamorous slog to get off the ground but also don't come under pressure to compromise on their morals.
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I feel similarly about Medium: waning enthusiasm. I only recently got engaged in HackerNews. The UI isn't beautiful. There are minimal features. It's my favorite content aggregator right now. Obviously, HN isn't a blogging platform, but it accomplishes many of the things medium is trying to. I wonder if many more partners will give up on medium? Hackernoon is moving away because of a change to medium's advertising po…
> The UI isn't beautiful. I disagree. HN's UI is perfect.
Services exist if you pay for them with: 1. Labor 2. Cash 3. Personal Data/Ads With a few exceptions (I can't think of any, but presumably you might) you have to pay through one of these methods. If you don't like Medium, you can use Blogger (3), Ghost/Svbtle (2) or self host (1 + less 2). To put it another way, are we annoyed at Medium or just the inevitable friction in the world. No matter what they promised, they…
Caveats - authoring is not mobile friendly, and it's not possible for folks who aren't comfortable with git.
Signal v Noise - recently exited https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/ Previously, a Wired's Publication did similar thing. Despite all, (as someone who writes on medium) - I see it's one easy platform anyone to get started - kind of what blogspot used to do.
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 don't want to trivialize how annoying the login popups are, but ultimately I put up with them for the sake of a more readable article on the other side.
What blog styles do you like reading?