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“HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by iamjustlooking »

briandoll wrote: post #20

For anyone else trying to move off Medium - it's more complicated than it sounds (there is no single chronological index of your content, for example) - we wrote up some tips and tools we used recently: https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2019-02-27-some-tips-on-m...

Seems like a good idea to check for and try any export tools before adding content to a system. Furthermore if the site provides the export tool there's no guarantee they wont take it away or modify it.

Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by didgeoridoo »

iamjustlooking wrote: post #31
briandoll wrote: post #20

For anyone else trying to move off Medium - it's more complicated than it sounds (there is no single chronological index of your content, for example) - we wrote up some tips and tools we used recently: https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2019-02-27-some-tips-on-m...

Seems like a good idea to check for and try any export tools before adding content to a system. Furthermore if the site provides the export tool there's no guarantee they wont take it away or modify it.

The best approach is to keep your source of truth out of the Medium platform from the start. You can use the "import post" functionality to tag your original off-Medium post as the canonical one, which gives you the best of both worlds: Medium discoverability plus full control over your content. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214550207-Import-a...

Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by fareesh »

Apart from the infrastructure and application, what benefits does Medium provide? Is it the discovery of your content via the links at the bottom? Is that considered the killer feature?

Is there some kind of solution that exists where self-hosted bloggers can send traffic to each other, like the link sharing networks of the old days?

Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by KerrickStaley »

turtlegrids wrote: post #2

Oh how I miss the days of simple self-publishing from your WYSIWYG html editor direct to a cheap VPS. Why's everything gotta be so complicated?

I use GitHub Pages + Jekyll to host my blog, and it works pretty well. It's free and I don't have to do any administration work or worry about load. It's also trivial to port to another platform (e.g. VPS).

https://github.com/kerrickstaley/kerrickstaley.github.io https://www.kerrickstaley.com/

Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by smacktoward »

heyyyouu wrote: post #9

I don't know why they wouldn't have done their own Website to start with. It's not hard, at all. This arrangement put way, way too much power into a partner's hand. Also not clarifying rights before you publish something is just a seriously rookie move. Rule of thumb is that nothing gets published until you have the author rights agreement signed.

Medium's pitch was that they would drive traffic from other sites/publications/etc. in their network to yours. So by being in the network, you would get a free promotional boost you wouldn't get by setting up a standalone web site.

(Of course it eventually turned out that the size of this boost was not as big as many anticipated it would be, which dampened the appeal of being in the network somewhat.)

Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by mattnewport »

I don't know what Medium is like for writers but it certainly doesn't feel like a better model for me as a reader. I'm reluctant to click on links to Medium on HN at this point because of their incessant nagging and popups for me to register.

Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by lukewrites »

owenwil wrote: post #29

I posted this thing on Twitter, but just to be clear about what's going on here: they've replied and said their terms of service were not really intended to be harsh, they don't want your content, and that they'll revise them ( https://twitter.com/ow/status/1105462220517969920 ). One day when Twitter actually implements tweet editing, these types of threads can start with a bit more clarity. That said: Medium, as an…

That's interesting to hear. Out of curiosity, how much writing do you do on Medium vs other places (eg a personal, non-medium blog)?

I'm in the process of resurrecting my own blog, and I've been wondering about how much I should blog on other platforms for readership/exposure as opposed to my own self-hosted blog.

Re: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

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Post by jjeaff »

owenwil wrote: post #29

I posted this thing on Twitter, but just to be clear about what's going on here: they've replied and said their terms of service were not really intended to be harsh, they don't want your content, and that they'll revise them ( https://twitter.com/ow/status/1105462220517969920 ). One day when Twitter actually implements tweet editing, these types of threads can start with a bit more clarity. That said: Medium, as an…

>betting on a platform as a business is a really bad idea

I can't really think of any business that isn't built or at least highly reliant on someone else's platform right now.

Uber/Lyft are hopelessly dependent on iOS and Android. And that goes for any business that is heavily reliant on their mobile app.

Then everyone else is reliant at leadt on the credit card networks to process their payments. They would go out of business overnight if the processors decided to cut them off.

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