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Re: Why Medium Sucks

#11

Post by Veen » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:20 PM UTC

You need look no further than Ev Williams' opinions on the future of the web to understand why it sucks:

"The idea won’t be to start a website. That will be dead. The individual website won’t matter. The Internet is not going to be about billions of people going to millions of websites. It will be about getting it from centralized websites."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/09/09/mediums-eva...

Re: Why Medium Sucks

#12

Post by octosphere » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:20 PM UTC

This is why I am a big fan of POSSE[0] which is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Also worth reading:

https://medium.com/@joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c...

https://www.webdistortion.com/2019/05/16/can-we-all-please-s...

Re: Why Medium Sucks

#13

Post by jwlake » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:24 PM UTC

Medium actually works great if you just block all their cookies. This fixes most "news" and publishing sites.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by bradleyhb » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

octosphere wrote: post #12

This is why I am a big fan of POSSE[0] which is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site. [0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE Also worth reading: https://medium.com/@joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c…

a.k.a. decentralization

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by ctvo » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

overshard wrote: post #10

I feel like we are beating a dead horse here. Everyone I talk to knows Medium sucks. I personally hate the modal that comes up every time if I'm not logged in and how much of my screen is take up by fixed bars. Medium has a community though. Facebook sucks, but it has a community. Twitter sucks, but it has a community. You are going to get more people to see your post if you put it on Medium. You are going to get mor…

I may be one of the folks not part of the Medium community. I only visit Medium via direct links (on HN, shared on Twitter or shared directly to me by friends). I can't remember the times I've been on Medium's home page or opened up their app to browse.

If those direct links sent me to somewhere else entirely tomorrow I wouldn't care.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by aloisdg » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:31 PM UTC

mattieuga wrote: post #5

Are ads > paywalls?

When a platform let you choose between Scylla and Charybdis, avoid the platform.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by mixmastamyk » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:32 PM UTC

grecht wrote: post #4

I agree with the author: It sucks. But so does white font on a blue background, since we’re also talking about readability. At least they got that right!

Are you dissing Word Perfect and edit for DOS?

Re: Why Medium Sucks

#18

Post by duxup » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:32 PM UTC

dickeytk wrote: post #3

Must be a slow HN day if we've got another post about Medium

Yeah it's getting to be "a bit much" with the volume of such articles.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by ycombonator » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:36 PM UTC

The ethos behind Medium is one of openness and democracy—like the Internet itself. Evan Williams. https://medium.com/@ev/what-were-trying-to-do-with-medium-e2... He is chan/rging the world.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

#20

Post by klez » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

bradleyhb wrote: post #14

octosphere wrote: post #12

This is why I am a big fan of POSSE[0] which is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site. [0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE Also worth reading: https://medium.com/@joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c…

a.k.a. decentralization

a.k.a. the web, to be fair. Major siloes were a later development.