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Re: Medium pressured freeCodeCamp to put the articles behind the firewall

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Post by derivagral »

dntrkv wrote: post #5
franciscop wrote: post #3

From the thread, the email author says: > This email was intended only for Oleg and a few of our other authors. I have messaged him asking to delete it. We are focused on the future and want to move on from this.

Is that because they really want to move on or is it because the email doesn't tell the whole story? Curious to hear Medium's response.

As I understood it, the request was from the founder of FCC who presumably doesn't want the drama.

I get his concern, but as someone uninvolved in FCC but who does read Medium I'm glad to see this sort of thing out in the open.

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Post by scotchbonnet »

quincyla wrote: post #13

Please delete this post. This is a private email I sent to the author. It was not intended to be shared on Twitter. We just want to move on and focus on the future.

Never send an email you wouldn't want forwarded. We all learn this lesson, eventually.

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Post by frgtpsswrdlame »

quincyla wrote: post #13

Please delete this post. This is a private email I sent to the author. It was not intended to be shared on Twitter. We just want to move on and focus on the future.

The cat's out of the bag. I think you'll need to try a different approach.

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Post by user00012-ab »

I don't think Medium has fully grasped that people read most content because they are bored, not because they really care about the content; thus when you put the content behind a paywall, most people will just go find other ways to amuse their bored brains on the internet.

Content on the internet is usually so shallow it's bordering near worthless; lots of people just repeating other people over and over. When it comes to explaining a concept, most sites on the internet just cover the basics and promise they'll get to the deeper stuff later (and never do.)

The nice thing about the old book model (Before ebooks), is the amount of work it took to get a book published ended up filtering out all the mediocre content which we see today on the internet because it is so easy to hit publish somewhere. Paying for a book is worth it, as the book is actually a complete thought. The stuff people are trying to charge for on the internet is just mostly low quality stream of conscious writings with no actual content behind it.

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Post by bluetidepro »

quincyla wrote: post #13

Please delete this post. This is a private email I sent to the author. It was not intended to be shared on Twitter. We just want to move on and focus on the future.

Genuinely curious though, why try to sweep under the rug the sketchy tactics Medium tried to pull here? I think this should be a good warning for others. You can move on, and focus on the future but still reflect and share the past. They are not exclusive, in my opinion.

Re: Medium pressured freeCodeCamp to put the articles behind the firewall

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Post by taytus »

Kemejii wrote: post #17
quincyla wrote: post #13

Please delete this post. This is a private email I sent to the author. It was not intended to be shared on Twitter. We just want to move on and focus on the future.

Are you Quincy Larson?

I believe he is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15918172
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