Medium is like Google+ for me now. Don't go there.
Ending our Medium integration
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Re: Ending our Medium integration
#192Quora also started out as an awesome service just like Medium. Eventually though, the VC's need the promises they've heard during fundraising to be fulfilled. That's when the platforms start with the dark patterns. 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.
Yeah, I really wonder if there is a “non-evil” example for:
Don’t worry how this will monetize. We’ll figure this out later once we have the scale.
Re: Ending our Medium integration
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The venture funding doesn't really have anything to do with it, does it? Even if they were entirely self funded, they still need to generate enough revenue to cover their costs. It feels like Medium is circling the drain.
Sure it does, venture funding comes with investors seeking to make a large return in a specific timeframe. If they were entirely self-funded, they could slowly ramp revenue streams and build on a sustainable base. Getting a large influx of funding forces a company to search for faster growth to justify the valuation and deliver projected future growth. In 2017, Medium laid-off 1/3 of their workforce because their adv…
So the venture funding is just giving them more rope to hang themselves with? It's letting them make bigger, more costly mistakes?
I would bet many of the investors were making a bet on Ev Williams as much as they were on Medium. Medium's business model has always felt a bit exploitative. If they truly are focusing on quality rather than quantity, maybe that will change.
Re: Ending our Medium integration
#194Medium is poor choice of publishing platform anyway https://pawelurbanek.com/medium-blogging-platform-seo
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Long ago I was a consultant for a large church. One of their IT guys got a call from the pastor, who was worried about being hacked... The IT guy had been working on the desktop and had left up a browser window. The pastor read the URL as ExpertSexChange...
Around 1997 or so, I got called into a meeting with my boss, director, and head of IT security. I worked night shift in a wafer fab, and someone was accessing the computers in the office, and visiting inappropriate sites at night (that their new sophisticated monitor found). I was young, and into computers, I guess they assumed it was me. I pointed out that I didn't have a keycard that gave me access to the office ar…
How dare someone be excited!
I used to have an excite.com email.
Re: Ending our Medium integration
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Can you describe what Quora did? I've heard a few reports that it's not like it used to be, but I've found it useful, and am curious as to what makes it worse than before.
Many dark patterns including forcing people to login to read content. Now it's a "modern" ExpertSexChange where "online marketing specialists" ask questions with one account and answer their own questions with another account. "Disclaimer haha I work for Bullshit.ly as a growth ninja but here's my response..." "In conclusion I'm not saying you should totally checkout our stuff ... but you totally should. just my 2 ce…
You forgot “I don't know why you ask for an open-source app, but here are a couple of free ones laden with cancer-inducing ads.”
Re: Ending our Medium integration
#197Secretly hated Medium for a long time. Didn't know everyone shared the sentiment. I'm reading this and smiling.
While I dislike Medium too, I think this post as well as the comments are very quick to jump to conclusions and assume the worst possible intent with very little information. The much more likely explanation, which is almost always the cases in these scenarios, is that it was a bug or bad push.
It's perfectly fine to dislike Medium, but I dislike how easily everyone throws them under the bus at the slightest issue without even looking to understand what actually happened.
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Without custom CSS, you couldn't, however, fix the single most important readability issue about unstyled HTML: add reasonable margins and keep body width at the recommended 60–70em or so. Readability modes finally get that right.
Right. I forgot to mention that we also used to be able to resize the browser to the width we personally found comfortable for reading. I guess that's something reader modes still have to rediscover.
Sure. But lines running from window border to window border are still hard to read. The margins have to be clean negative space.
Re: Ending our Medium integration
#199Very telling post. Some may recall that once upon a time Twitter did the same thing. Cut the API for third-party apps and basically said [in my words], "We don't need you." Was Ev at Twitter when that happened?
Re: Ending our Medium integration
#200Quora also started out as an awesome service just like Medium. Eventually though, the VC's need the promises they've heard during fundraising to be fulfilled. That's when the platforms start with the dark patterns. 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.
Yeah, I really wonder if there is a “non-evil” example for: Don’t worry how this will monetize. We’ll figure this out later once we have the scale.
Trello, perhaps?