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Why Medium Sucks

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Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by kickscondor »

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…

There are quality platforms that have communities - see micro.blog, see news.indieweb.org, see my own directory to the modern web at href.cool. These are smaller communities - but they are all outside of the login walls, so there is a lot of crosstalk. There is even a strong community of TiddlyWiki users who congregate around philosopher.life. There are fantastic options out there, if you are able to shift your gaze away from the clickstreams.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by momokoko »

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'm not sure it's about community. But I am sure we are beating a dead horse with all this Medium sucks posts.

We all know why. Everyone does. If they chose to use it, it's because they still feel its better than the alternative. I'm not really sure what else there is to be said at this point

I don't use Medium. But honestly, why do I care if anyone else does? Could someone maybe explain the negative to the world at large? There are thousands of low friction options to publish content on the web. I'm not really too scared of Medium forcing anyone into something they do not want to do.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by manjana »

One thing that is really nice thou is the typography they have chosen to set on. Most blogs fail at this imo (to a lesser or ocasionally to a disastrous degree).

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by tonystubblebine »

Here's the Dev.to piece on the FCC section that the author is talking about. I wouldn't take FCC's public posturing uncritically as it appears they stole a lot of people's articles on the way off of Medium and ruined a lot of author's SEO in the process. https://dev.to/ben/i-m-concerned-with-the-move-that-freecode...

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by ghop02 »

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 would love to see Medium profiles untethered from the actual medium site itself.

I love that you can post on your "personal" page, another publisher and not need to make a new account.

Are there any solutions out there that let you keep a consistent profile across multiple blogs?

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by coldtea »

ctvo wrote: post #15
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.

>I may be one of the folks not part of the Medium community.

The majority of people on earth are not part of the Medium community.

The problem is Medium still has a community of say a hundred million readers, and nothing else (which is a blogging aggregator) has a community just as large.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by steeleduncan »

slater wrote: post #45
steeleduncan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "with code support"?

Probably syntax highlighting, as discussed in the article

You can host on Github Pages for free using Jekyll, which supports Syntax Highlighting of code snippets. You can buy your own domain name and point it to your gh pages site.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by mft_ »

Can anyone explain how Medium got to be so big, despite its drawbacks?

I mean, it wasn't launched that long ago, and it's not like blogging platforms were rare then. Was it the curation/discovery aspect? Or something else?

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